Perhaps so. "Heaven in chaos" moments approaching? My own gut feeling is to lean on the pessimism side with Americans, though. But that definitely has its faults (I may miss out on real opportunities). I feel that they won't let the sinking ship that is the imperial core go down easy. They'll ramp up every inhumane measure they can to "keep the treats flowing," although the decline is inevitable. But, this is vibes based analysis of mine. So maybe the limits are already being reached, idk.

Another vibe-based analysis of mine is my pessmisitic view of the white American worker. I feel that the web of white supremacy and settler colonialism is so strong here and it's going to be a very serious hindrance to organizing white workers. It isn't impossible, but I fear it is harder than the orgs I am (and have been) involved with admit (or at least show to me - I have limited info of what higher ups think in terms of strategy).

And again, thus is vibes on my part. Growing up where I did, having the type of family I have, seeing "communist parties" full of labor aristocrats deny settler colonialism after Oct 7th, and seeing baby leftist aquantiances of mine make the turn to patsoc and then proto-fascist in the matter of years (all while starting to deny that racism is even a problem) has impacted my optimism of America. I'm convinced that the above people I've met will fight against socialism, especially if it has an aspect of anti-colonial struggle as I believe it should. But, these are vibes from being around predominantly white spaces. So it is far from the whole picture.

I also don't think it's wise to use my above thoughts to abandon class struggle here. Class struggle will continie. Abandoning my own responsibility is something I don't want to do, even if I'm unsure at the moment of what this responsibility is and how it fits in with a larger strategy. But, overall, I just think the struggle for socialism will be hard, and there are reasons for it. (The mix of white supremacy, a bourgeoisified proletariat, settler colonial attitudes).

But, like you point out, nothing lasts. The basis for this type of ideology in the core won't be around forever. But when that rugs starts getting pulled, I think the pendulum will swing rightwards by default as the above groups will do everything they can to hold on to their status. But, that only means left forces must be organized to counter it. Even in the imperial core, class struggle will play out.