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They won't. There hasn't been a popular armed resistance group since the Black Panthers, and they weren't popular either. It's more likely the rest of the world will have to team up with Russia and China to fight the Western Axis powers.
I don't see that going well for anyone.
The only way forward I see is shutting off trade which is doubtful due to the strength of the American dollar. Or a general strike by citizens which is also unlikely due to the price of food and housing.
The US would be in a defensive war in what you describe. And since the US Nuclear program is properly funded and the warheads are inspected and maintained on a very rigid schedule I have little doubt there will be a positive outcome for that.
There is no violent solution to this. There's 300 years of entrenched efforts against it. It would be a decline like the Ottomans, where vassal states migrate away and begin forming their own external economic ties.
Look at the collapse of communism in Russia, the USSR and Warsaw Pact. They had nukes too, their leadership was arguably as brutal and inhumane as that in the US now, and much more deeply entrenched. Yet they were overthrown.
People power is a thing. Don't pretend it's impossible, that's just the learned helplessness message they keep pounding into your head.
One thing that would be an appallingly bad idea would be to ally with either Russia or China in attacking the US. If they were to win, it'd be even worse. The leadership of both those countries makes the American psychopathic kakistrocrats look positively benign.
I agree with you, that's why in my first comment I'm suggesting a general strike which is power of the people. The comment I replied to was saying that other countries would end fascism in America through war. I highlighted why that wouldn't work.
If thats the story of the future you believe, then that's what you'll get. I prefer to believe in an option that'll solve it sooner, nukes be damned, I dare them to nuke the world they so depend on for power. If only we could start telling ourselves a better, more realistic story of humanity instead of a pessimistic one. Not saying it's gonna be pretty, but neither is 300 years of technofascism. You want reality to become that movie 'Equilibrium'? That's how you get reality to become that movie 'Equilibrium.' And if there aren't any Grammaton Clerics to save you now there won't be then.