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The scale of collapse requires radical restructuring, which the capitalist system is structurally incapable of delivering.

Which makes me think a pivot to the gloved fist and truncheon is more likely. A pivot to what might be called fascism and a dropping of the facade of liberal democracy.

It may very well be that they've decided that the charade of liberal democracy cannot sustain them much longer so perhaps we'll get permanent locking out of Democrats from power so corralled progressives in the US will be discontent but shrug it off as a dictatorship they can't do much about while the hooting chuds of the Republican party, the proud reactionaries will celebrate and be happy to step up to use violence to maintain this hold even as conditions worsen because they have that Protestant Slave Mentality (falsely called a "work ethic") and thus allow the bourgeoisie to cling on to power longer.

It's a move of desperation obviously but I think in a reactionary place like the US with such low class consciousness combined with the historical high of power of all natures (military violence, finance, domestic/international spying, etc) that they could keep such an naked reactionary dictatorship going longer than the ~10 years the Nazis held power.

Fascism does allow the radicalization to be directed towards maintaining capital and empire and sadly with how reactionary many young people, especially young men in the west are becoming in our alienating, atomized society I think that's probably the way things go in the US and those people will hold true to such a decaying order and can keep the US under their boot for several decades.