@winterklaus the thing you must understand about the US is that things have gotten this bad because the state has been gradually being dismantled of its function to serve the self-preservation of the dictatorship of the bourgeois. I forget if it was Marx or Lenin who talks about this (or maybe both idk I'm on less than four hours of sleep today) but the bourgeois state exists to reign in the most destructive tendencies of capital, and the US is basically an prolonged experiment in being like "what if we just didn't do that and effectively had ancapistan but with a fascist police state and the most expensive military in the world to terrorize the third world with?"

things have gotten so bad that the US has gotten to the point where it very blatantly is no longer even capable of acting in its own self-interests as an entity and is able to function on a fundamental level. which is why I've been comparing it to the state that Russia was in before 1917: a backwards, decrepit empire that represents the last dying gasps of the old regime (which in this case is capitalism itself) that is only ripe for revolution because it has destroyed itself.