They’ve really done it to themselves. Worked up into a religious fervor wishing the days of the 70s dictators would come back, where the disabled, dissenting students, and activists were rounded up and killed wholesale.
And before the chuds roll in, yes I have personally seen this. It’s almost universal with the older demographic.
These are people that worship the dictators of old to this day, keeping massive portraits of them in their homes.
Working the younger generations to death and keeping all the profits their labor generated. They have miraculously speedrun capitalism in two generations. Went from subsistence farmers to gleaming cities to complete societal collapse in 50 years. Fascinating.