Location: Germany
For me it’s the shift to the right in culture and politics that is making me anxious. It not just the US. In Europe there are several countries that have been shifting towards the far right. France, Germany, Netherlands, Finnland, Sweden, Italy… and more. It’s a matter of time untill one of the major player, either France or Germany, will have a right wing government. In both countries the current government has failed and on both countries the main reason has been right wing propaganda doing it’s work.
This will habe some consequences on many levels, climate deniers beeing in charge and not only stopping, but working against the progress the world has achieved beeing one of them.
You can feel it in the people too, here. It feels like people are staring to dial back on the progressive ideas they express on public. It’s going to be harsh world our there for us, who are not amongst the majority.
Realistically, there is no party which is able to look what is coming straight into the eye. Which figures, since sending such a message to the voters is suicidal. So we won’t get a managed decline but rather an uncontrolled fall, collapse. We better accept that any mitigation is only possible at personal and small scale community level.
the malignant right wing has faded a bit in usa and somewhat more lucid elites than expected have been queued to be placed in positions where some actual reforms might occur that are technically not even right wing. im not counting on much but the idea that something might move the needle a little is some what interesting because we are going to be needing lots of reforms just to hold off entropy and any such reforms are at least a sign its possible.
i wont hold my breath
