Things will get bad as the country declines, but things need to get bad for any hope of US imperialism to decline as well. Quality of life in the US is propped up by the exploitation, suffering, and death of people across the world. It’s abstracted in such a way that so much of the population doesn’t think of, or even care, what the cost of sustaining our current lifestyle is. I think material conditions need to be hit hard for any kind of solidarity to start building, but more importantly to give any kind of relief the those outside the imperial core.