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Obviously nothing stops them and in the long term getting the Epstein treatment is only going to be more common. The ghouls in charge will continue to do whatever it takes to remain in power. That's not being a doomer, it's just analyzing the past and present realities and where the US (and west broadly) is on trajectory toward. Spontaneous violence is going to continue to ramp up as people's material conditions worsen and what they "have to lose" drops closer to zero. Mix in alienation from society and labor... it's amazing it isn't already happening more. People have no outlet for their anger that responds in the necessary ways. This breeds nihilism and resentment towards those who are very clearly caused these problems and continue to enrich themselves from suffering.
As shitty as the future is very clearly going to be (minus some sort of Biblical level miracle intervention from aliens or some shit) for a long while, what makes one not a doomer is still staying involved and aware, maintaining a revolutionary mindset, and accepting that we had a better world stolen from us. Instead of living in despair and succumbing totally to anger and nihilistic rage, you have to channel that righteous anger into something positive. Not everyone is going to be able to handle the stresses. Especially those not equipped with knowledge of the past and why this is happening.
But yeah, long story short, accepting the realities of state power is not doomerism. That's just reaching the correct conclusion based on all available facts. But they won't always hold all the power. There is a future that is brighter. You kind of have to believe in that even if you see no path to it now because believing otherwise, that all hope is dead, that we are doomed to extinction due to the excesses of capital... well, I can't live every moment thinking that because why am I even alive then? Being a bit of a perpetual optimist while also acknowledging the repeated failures of humanity is required to maintain sanity. For me anyway.