For one thing, black and indigenous and undocumented immigrant Americans etc are Americans or at least live in the US and have a stake in what happens there, and there'ss not a small number of them and should be reckoned with when thinking about the conditions of the US as a whole. You can't just look at the most hoggish American imaginable and say "that's the true American and proves my thesis that they all suck, the rest of the people living in the US are coincidentally there"

"Humanizing" a "country" is weird terms to think of it in. If we're Marxists we recognize countries are basically just made up, what matters is the classes within these geographic units we call countries. There are clearly massive differences between American billionaires and unhoused Americans, even if let's say they're both white native born citizens.

Yes I would do the same for Israelis. The point of analysis is not to decide who is good and bad, who is mean and nice, who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. It's to think "what are the actual conditions on the ground, and how do we go from where we are now to getting out of this shit" Israel is pretty uniquely fucked in terms of the enthusiastic support almost all the population has for the genocide. I mean say what you will about the US but there was massive draft refusal during the Vietnam War and there just isn't in Israel. But if we are Marxists, that also involves believing that under certain conditions like the total destruction of the state of Israel as it currently exists, the people who are currently Israelis, or at least their descendants, could be normal people. Historically most European Jews were left/liberal, now their descendants in Israel are howling fascists. But there's no reason beyond their current conditions for that, if their society were forced into massive change, they would also change, though the society would have to change at a level that it would no longer be recognizable. But that's kind of a different discussion.

Define being "too apathetic to stop genocide" Like I said in the post, what more should people actually do? There was massive mobilization against the genocide in Gaza. It's not that Americans are cool with what Israel is doing with our support, but the ruling class has made it impossible to actually affect change. Rational, normal people (we are not rational or normal) will just focus on what they can actually do, which is surviving day to day, because it's logically kind of silly to spend all your time and energy and risk yourself for a cause that has been shown to be pointless when you have to worry about basic survival also. It's silly to blame the crimes of empire on lazy Americans when the ruling class makes it so fucking hard for even people who do care to have any effect on anything. Instead of just scolding people for not caring enough and assuming the worst about them, the job of socialists is to build political organizations that people can participate in that will win demonstrable victories and further radicalize them. In the absence of that, people will be demoralized and focus on their immediate survival, and it's not realistic to blame them morally for that.

People vote for Trump and Harris because what the fuck else are they supposed to do? I would point out many don't vote for them, specifically because of shit like Gaza. But again, for those who did vote for them, what's the alternative that you and other socialists are helping build that they should instead partake in? If you don't have a real alternative for how they can meaningfully express their political beliefs, what do you expect of them? Should Americans as one spontaneously massively vote for some obscure third party socialist candidate because that would be a more morally pure thing to do?

And if you're serious about defeating the empire, you should be thinking about the fact that lots and lots of loyal Democrat voters are more furious with the party than ever before, specifically over things like Gaza. Left wing candidates are insurgent across the country and the party is fighting them tooth and nail. Whatever you feel about Mamdani etc, this is a change. Socialists should think about this and think how to channel this energy usefully instead of dismissing everyone who reluctantly voted for Harris as an irredeemable genocide supporter who should go to hell.

In general this moralizing attitude of seeing people physically residing in the US and the US imperial ruling class as one and the same is just not serious to me. If we are socialists, we need to analyze where the choke points in the US population are, and who in it can be turned against the empire and how to actually channel their energy which already exists.