It's not even "individualism" as it is basic materialism. American wars have not benefited the working class materialy since ww2. When they invaded Iraq "for oil" it didn't even slow consumer prices for gasoline. Even the slowest people can see it which is how trump got elected in the first place.

Destroying the entire economic social contract of the labor aristocracy is pretty much the surest way to bring about class consciousness in america. While the fascists are doing a bit of the classic blame throwing I don't think they are doing it well enough to galvanize a sufficiently large part of the population to make it a viable movement.

I don't believe in JDPON don as much as penis fingers don (everything he touches gets fucked) but I can understand why people would think this constant stream of fuckups could be intentional.

I feel like donald and friends read a few AI summaries of books on "how to turn a country into a fascist dictatorship" and are following the general outline. They think the process is like making a soup where they can eyeball measurements and if they don't have one ingredient they can ignore or substitute it. In reality the process is more like doing chemistry where using the wrong thing will destroy what they are making and maybe take them with it.

I dunno. I think the Rs and Ds, both leadership and voters, have strong anti-China alignment and war against China will have desperate unemployed people happy to enlist to "fight for freedom and liberty". Plenty of Ds that I know say shit like "if we're not careful we'll all be speaking Chinese soon". I think anti-China sentiment and patriotism is strong enough to unify a desperate US population.

I think it's a huge risk because such desperation could easily precipitate internal conflict before external conflict kicks off. I think it's a huge risk because external conflict may never happen if military analysts realize they can never win.