if by some miracle the country is saved from an own-goal and trump is not crowned god king by January, it will be due solely to the American public - in spite of the Democrats.
we are literally down to the very last line of defence - an educated, engaged, caring voting population. I am worried.
if by some miracle the country is saved from an own-goal and trump is not crowned god king by January, it will due solely to the American public - in spite of the Democrats.
If any country on earth had this we wouldn't be where we are today. Sadly most people are dumb as rocks and only live to passively consume kpop, tiktok and temu, only thing they care about being "maybe that there's too many minorities these days" and that's why they can't get a job/date etc. Theres enough lard there to feed a whole other country and it's just a shame.
We used to dream that with the free and open internet and cooperative democratic grassroots politedu movements we could truly put an end to the threat of fascism, and that all of us could go on as a species to break the shackles of oppression and restructure systems to fix injustice, that new generations armed with information would have limitless potential to lead us into a future we could be proud of.
And ultimately it wasn't meant to be. Humanity is disappointing, and to dislike people is a fairly natural reaction at this point.
I think about this sometimes. The scorecard for the internet. Not sure it’s positive TBH.
In a more sci-fi vein, I wonder if it’s an inflection point for the evolution of society … when mass communication technology develops relative to the educational and political development of the same society.
It feels to me, in the west that is, that we were not culturally ready for mass communication. That we needed at least a few more generations of grappling with society’s problems and framing the role of the individual in the collective. That WWII probably held things back two generations. That we’ve basically squandered an opportunity and may pay the price for centuries down the line.