The decline is undeniable, but all the messaging is about how everything is great actually, never been better.

Right, and ask them to die for it vs the people willing to die for revolution, how’s that going to go?

They’re going to go “Nah fuck this, I ain’t dying for this shit”.

There is absolutely zero incentive, while the revolutionaries will have absolutely every incentive.

Only a new deal will make this change. The question is whether they realise that or not before the time comes. No amount of clinging to historical propaganda like a comfort blanket will make it work in different material conditions, it worked at a certain time because of certain conditions that no longer exist.

The more they lean into it in the wrong conditions the more they just teach people that communism might be for them.