I will answer the last question with aplomb and thought. Yes, the American public has been desensitized, de-educated and disenfranchised enough that we will, indeed, take any and all dildos up the ass with a smile on our faces.

Is this even a real question? Because it seems genuine, I will treat it as such.

Instead of hand wringing and making abstract statements, you can answer your own question by explaining what this process looks like on the individual level:

Start with you. You say we have the right to guns AND aren’t you all armed up the wazoo. Assuming this means that you aren’t armed or trained. So you have to become armed and get trained to be effective in the manner you are describing. Then you have to get organized to be effective. That involves time, opportunity cost, and risk.

Move to others. This same process has to happen across a critical mass of individuals. We can barely get unions organized in the USA. That’s trying to get people to rally behind their own economic interests. It’s an order of magnitude more difficult to get people to organize for something less tangible.

Realize it’s by design. The system (capitalism) is designed to keep us all running on the hamster wheel so we cannot take the steps necessary to become individually valuable to an organized movement. In contrast, it creates paid professional positions (the police/military) to enforce the rules of that system. Currently, those that run the system are (hopefully) reaching the threshold of what the cogs will tolerate.

Call it hypnotism if you want. The truth is that the majority of the working class is still subjected to the same top down rule that that we always have been under whatever form of hierarchical rule has been the flavor of the day. I attribute the general shock that many are expressing for the current moment to recently realizing that we are all still stuck in Plato’s Cave.

What to do. Understand where you are in the arch of history. Keep pushing in the direction you want things to go. Keep passing knowledge and training on. Keep maintaining social connections with like minded individuals. Do all this so that those who are in the right place, at the right time, can do the right thing.

When republicans get off their ass and hold their politicians to account

At what point do we, as the American public, just say no more?

50 years ago, but it’s one of those "best time to plant a tree"situations

Americans benefit for imperialism, its the reason even poorest americans has obesity problems and 9 million people starve to death every year. America benefits by these wars and invasions and so do its citizens so they dont care about millions of people dying as long as they are able to get better lifestyle than most of the world. Americans wont care until they are bombed even 10% of lebanon iran gaza and countless other nations america bombed. Americans need to see destruction of war and loose their families then maybe they will understand but this will never happen so americans wont take any action either.

Yeah they do, they have public healthcare.

(Or had until the US made sure they run out of supplies)

It’s coming right for us!

USA not liking a Russian-aligned island neighbor is similar to China not liking a USA-aligned Taiwan providing a military launchpad on their maritime border.

It will be interesting to see which strategy turns out to be more effective: China’s carrot and stick approach to reclaiming Taiwan, or USA’s belligerent vendetta against Cuba.