"The populace is too stupid and fascistic to be saved. Americans basically just have to wait for the older generation to die off before they have any hope of a just or sane society."

While I can certainly relate to this as an American, I have to disagree. Americans aren't any more stupid than anyone else. They are heavily propagandized, censored, under the boot heel of a fascist state, and surveilled incessantly. As would anyone in such a position, as did the Eurasian peoples under Stalin, they are circumspect, pander volubly, and hunker down with such treats as they can manage to gather.

People respond to their environment. As the environment changes, they change. Crisis is upon us, in short order, and Americans will respond accordingly.

Smedley Butler refused to transform America into a fascist dictatorship, despite his long service as a thug for crony capitalist corporations. Perhaps there are many more such heroes among us yet.