Just need to vent, I swear to god the revolutionary potential in America is just not there. So many people just have zero ideological conviction and because we’re not subject to the worst of the empire’s violence many feel no constant need to fight it, an encampment can end and so many people just go to brunch. The constant need to fight against the empire’s propaganda, infiltrated orgs, and most of all the powerful combination of privilege and individualism is so incredibly exhausting. All that feels good to do is sit home, read theory and talk with my closest comrades, I can’t be led into another unprepared police raid by people who had just collaborated with the kops, or in an org led ultimately by some undemocratically elected leader, or talk to another “ML” or anarchist white boy that can’t even admit racism and imperialism still fuckin exists.
I sympathize with your feelings. In my admittedly somewhat vibes-based estimation, the role of the US in the coming decades – probably for the rest of my life – is simply to decline and give way to a new world. Or nuke everybody like an asshole.
Our only meaningful job as western leftists – historically the shittiest, least accomplished leftists – is basically harm reduction to try and ensure that as many working class people survive into whatever world awaits.