Hypothetically, I'd be willing to negotiate and find a compromise between factions but the central point that the war needs to end, immediately, is non-negotiable. We gotta turn off the meat grinder. Otherwise, what was even the point? I get the feeling that that point would have me wind up aligning with the Bolshevists in practice (which is what I got), but that's probably why I wound up a little to their right.
I think we need to examine what we're specifically talking about when we say, "collapse." The British Empire, the Weimar Republic, and the Qing dynasty all collapsed, but that collapse looked very different in each case.
On April 24, 1953, Mahmoud Afshartous, Iranian general, chief of police, and right hand man of the prime minister, is invited to the home of a member of the social democratic party. As he approaches, he announces that the building is surrounded and that everyone inside is under arrest for treason. He had received a tip that the social democrats were collaborating with foreign intelligence and that they were luring him there with the intent to abduct him, probably to torture him to death and leave his body in the streets to get him out of the way and destabilize the government or something like that. A firefight ensues, and searching the building provides Afshartous with more intelligence, leading him to launch an immediate raid on the hotel room of one Kermit Roosevelt, which leads to his arrest and the uncovering of incontrovertible proof that the Americans are plotting to overthrow the government and install the shah as an absolute ruler, through the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency.
This provokes a major international scandal. President Eisenhower denies all foreknowledge of the plot and blames the CIA, leading to the dismissal of Allen Dulles. He proceeds to declassify certain documents related to the plot - documents that also implicate MI6, damaging relations with the UK (along with screwing up and abandoning the plot in the first place). Attempting to please everyone, he ends up pleasing no one.
Prime Minister Mossadegh is outraged, and is convinced to shut down the American embassy and to pursue an alliance with the USSR. Iran's Marxist-Leninist party, Tudeh, rises in popularity, but only comes to power after Mossadegh steps down.
Tensions between Western powers and increased anti-colonial sentiment result in Korea being unified under the DPRK.
People all around the world become more cautious of US-backed regime change, but with the failure of the "proof of concept" coup in Iran, the US becomes much more hesitant to deploy such strategies. But the red scare is still a thing, with the events in Iran and Korea kicking it into high gear. But the US approach is much more overt and mask-off.
A civil war would be entirely one-sided bc one side has all the guns. That's not really a war, it's a massacre. And nobody's gonna risk their neck in the first place if it's a doomed cause.
There are two scenarios where there's a fighting chance, first, if the conflict is between the state and the right, and second, if the left becomes armed and organized.
The material conditions aren't set for the left to take advantage of chaos and collapse. The first order of business is to set up the correct material conditions.
Collapse doesn't mean it's wiped off the map. All the guns and bombs will continue to exist as it becomes more and more of a failed state, there is a real possibility of lashing out and starting WWIII, and in any case the right is much better armed and poised to take advantage of the chaos.
All else being equal, I believe it's better if it doesn't collapse just yet. But we don't really get to decide that, and regardless of what we want or don't want, collapse is coming. There will be no return to the status quo, not for long anyway, because people are dissatisfied with it, and the powers that be have demonstrated that they're unwilling to make any sort of compromise to keep things running if it gets in the way of their looting.
There's no real reason to push for collapse since it's inevitable, it's better to just prepare for it so that we can best contain the damage.
Of course there will be elections. Everywhere has elections, even if they're obviously undemocratic (which the US elections always were). There's zero reason to change that, and elections are a very useful tool for influencing and controlling the public.
Also, who establishes a dictatorship in their 80's? He's gonna die soon anyway.
This is one of those things where it's less about reality and more about what it signals. Libs are signalling how important they consider elections to be, and trying to either scare people into voting or get them to appreciate being able to vote.
American libertarianism is fundamentally grounded in chauvanism. The logic at the root of it is:
The US is the greatest country on earth, and has the best chance of succeeding at anything out of every country (unstated)
The US government sucks
Therefore, all possible governments suck
It's a difficult brainworm to dislodge because they aren't even conscious of their chauvanism. They'll happily criticize the US government, but it'll always be in the style of, "What are we, a bunch of Asians?" and every bad thing they see here will just be assumed to be even worse in other countries, "If it's that bad here, imagine what it must be like in China!"
Keeping the proxies in helps distinguish between different types of brainworms, but also, you don't really need to distinguish different types of brainworms.
They’re ranting about bourgeois anything and giving a pass to electoralism?
I think you're misunderstanding. She's not ranting about the bourgeoisie, she's saying that trans people owe our existence to capitalism and therefore capitalism is good.
"All trans people are rich entitled coastal elites... which is good actually, we need capitalism to produce class disparity so that people can be privileged enough to be trans."
Hypothetically, I'd be willing to negotiate and find a compromise between factions but the central point that the war needs to end, immediately, is non-negotiable. We gotta turn off the meat grinder. Otherwise, what was even the point? I get the feeling that that point would have me wind up aligning with the Bolshevists in practice (which is what I got), but that's probably why I wound up a little to their right.