sorry to post low hanging fruit, but this kinda shook me a little. imo, a much clearer sign of the decay of the bourgeois state than Trump's comments about not committing to peaceful transfer of power. (which have received significant national media attention.) Trump is a buffoon, one guy who is at risk of being assassinated if he refuses to accept the election results.
but this breakdown in the states is organic, something going with its own inertia. it's the first really frightening sign for me, that our liberal democracy, rickety as it may be, is actually at risk of coming apart. even if Trump loses and goes peacefully, I don't see a Biden admin using federal power to do anything at all about this, and neither will the 6-3 supreme court.
https://twitter.com/carterforva/status/1309354062853406720
People who think the US is about to collapse, or that China will save us all are completely delusional. Memes are all fun and good but the enormous power imbalance is both not in China's favour and at the same time the main factor keeping China from dealing in the same brutal ways vis a vis the developing nations it invests in. All that will happen, is already happening, is the US becoming outright fascist without any pretenses and ruling by force and coercion alone, all dissenters and "useless" populations dealt with by death squads. It's basically gonna be the Nazi Reich 2.0 but this time without the Soviet Union to stop them.