As someone who’s been in the center of the storm watching it grow for decades, I have to warn you and everyone outside of the USA that this is NOT a USA problem, this is a social problem that is spreading across the globe.
Corporate interests know no borders and will continue to work to destabilize and divide populations so that people don’t push back on the rich. The rich can only keep their power if people give it to them, and as long as people hate each other, they will keep giving power to the wealthy. This isn’t even new.
It’s just that everyone sees the impact on the US the most because the US has the biggest everything and when you see the giant fall, you tend to think the issue is connected to just the giant.
You want to save your country? Get very involved. Form movements, be on guard for emotional appeals and propaganda from either side, understand that the force that will subvert your government and society will not come from expected angles, it will be the amplification of the worst voices on both sides of every issue until the median voters and liberal population get fed up and tune out, it will be ploys to capitalize on the sexual insecurity of young men, it will be campaigns about race and culture under the guise of some non-racist ideal like preserving public safety or anti-terror, and most of all it will be atomized perspectives… algorithms that feed people isolated perspectives of the world.
You can only fight this with community and movement and being social and bold. Get people off their chairs and get people organized in your local community, or find who is already doing that and help them.
Maybe if we just bury our heads in the sand, say Dems are for taxing the rich, funding social programs, and raising the minimum wage, we will get there one day.
News about the USA makes me so incredibly sad and anxious currently.
I hope the world won’t go to shit and people will eventually see reason again.
As someone who’s been in the center of the storm watching it grow for decades, I have to warn you and everyone outside of the USA that this is NOT a USA problem, this is a social problem that is spreading across the globe.
Corporate interests know no borders and will continue to work to destabilize and divide populations so that people don’t push back on the rich. The rich can only keep their power if people give it to them, and as long as people hate each other, they will keep giving power to the wealthy. This isn’t even new.
It’s just that everyone sees the impact on the US the most because the US has the biggest everything and when you see the giant fall, you tend to think the issue is connected to just the giant.
You want to save your country? Get very involved. Form movements, be on guard for emotional appeals and propaganda from either side, understand that the force that will subvert your government and society will not come from expected angles, it will be the amplification of the worst voices on both sides of every issue until the median voters and liberal population get fed up and tune out, it will be ploys to capitalize on the sexual insecurity of young men, it will be campaigns about race and culture under the guise of some non-racist ideal like preserving public safety or anti-terror, and most of all it will be atomized perspectives… algorithms that feed people isolated perspectives of the world.
You can only fight this with community and movement and being social and bold. Get people off their chairs and get people organized in your local community, or find who is already doing that and help them.
I think the sooner we stop hoping and start fighting, will improve our chances to see a world based on freedom and reason within our lifetimes.
Maybe if we just bury our heads in the sand, say Dems are for taxing the rich, funding social programs, and raising the minimum wage, we will get there one day.