I would prefer to transition to communism through a proliferation of worker owned coops and radical democracy, rather than dying in a gunfight or drone strike to fascists and liberals.

Unfortunately, the hard limit of the environmental crisis makes this seem nonviable. I fear America is too far gone ideologically to be saved from the descent into fascism.

Short story: A republican candidate for county commissioner left a flyer at our door, and I told my mom she shouldn't vote for her because of the candidate's presumptive ideology. I was accused of needing to label everyone. "Why?" she asks. ...I could not even get my mother (apolitical and not interested in learning anything new) to commit -- in a thought experiment -- to the idea that she would have to stop hanging out with someone if she found out they were an active member of the KKK. That is the absolute state of what I believe is the majority of the generations that came before us. Even though we're no longer breathing in leaded fuel fumes (at least in theory), our education system is totally corporatized and getting worse and worse.

Even if we could empower the proliferation of worker coops, they simply don't address the issue that they are still "private" firms which function to generate profits for their participants, which is a huge problem and always seems to lead to corruption, imperialism, the rape of the environment, etc.