Sorry guys just had to share this intrusive thought with you all
Unfortunately this empire still has at least a decade or two left before it completely collapses (probably longer, if I'm being realistic). The US has survived much worse conditions and managed to sail through the entire Great Depression without the threat of dual power concretely emerging anywhere other than maybe Minneapolis for a couple months.
You may be seriously underestimating the extent that workers can be made to tolerate increasing immiseration in the absence of effective leadership and organization. This is the same country that tolerated literal chattel slavery for almost the first century of its existence independent from the UK. US workers have by and large been slowly conditioned over their lifetimes to expect to have to expect less for more in small and steady increments, almost convinced that a better world is impossible, some of the most cucked, brainwashed, and beaten-down workers in the imperial core. Anyone with anything resembling a spine, the slightest vestige of revolutionary or Marxist politics, or even a functioning political memory beyond two election cycles ago who refuses to be recuperated or metabolized into liberal politics is still taken about as seriously as a Cassandra, almost as fringe as the kookiest Qanon follower or antivaxxer or as utopian as the people who swear by cold fusion or Tesla's "free" energy.
We still have many decades of political work ahead of us to advance beyond arguing over meaningless side shows like AOC vs. Dore, and beyond unplanned insurrectionist tactics of despair. The "end of the world" will almost certainly happen before the end of capitalism happens. It doesn't matter that objective conditions are so rotten-ripe that they're covered in mold. The subjective factor needs a fire lit under its ass to mature past where it was in Europe in the fucking 1890s. What Marxist leadership might exist in the US now or in the future is still small in number, and disorganized. Disciplined and dedicated cadres, potential future leaders capable of eventually rallying thousands and perhaps eventually millions to a Marxist banner representing a carefully-formulated program with transitional demands, are also still too few. We still don't even have a god damn mass workers' party, not even a shitty succdem one like pre-Blair Labour or Labour under Corbyn's leadership. A lot has to change and most of the shitposters here (myself included, because the pandemic forced me to stay inside most of the past year) have to get off the damn armchair a lot more often if any of this is gonna change for the better.
