If the US collapses as a state, it would lead to the deaths of hundreds of millions due to spontaneous shifts in politics, supply chains, global economies, defense pacts and industries.
I’ve said that to Tankies before and they’ve told me that’s a necessary sacrifice.
Because they know they’re probably not gonna be the ones starving.
Crashing through collapse into fascism probably looks like a wonderful idea when you’re sitting pretty outside the blast radius.
This is because they look at very surface level cause and effect often even swapping in correlation for cause and running with it. It was the same way during COVID with “let the old and weak die to make humanity stronger!”… technically true…it is the INSANE NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS that would change causing normal people concern. Between that mindset, belief over facts, and lack of empathy, they can self-dilude into any “alternate truth” they need to not feel the pain of being wrong or changing their ways.