Here is a link to another post, but this is still harmless news compared to others, although I’m not sure – https://lemmy.world/post/37101088
I’ll confess this was me and now is me. Trump got elected when I was middle school-aged. I really, really believed that was the low point, and for the rest of my life, the USA would get better. I believed the USA population was just ill-informed, and I did not expect this global rise of fascism and digital surveillance. I assumed people would never vote to strip away freedoms if they knew that was going to happen. I assumed the internet would always stay anonymous, and always be a free space.
Obviously there was an immense amount I did not know about. I had heard of the Trail of Tears and Slavery and the Civil War, but I didn’t grasp institutionalized racism beyond police brutality; didn’t realize the Left was losing the internet, didn’t recognize the danger of the manosphere; didn’t understand how wide-spread the propaganda campaigns were, didn’t grasp that billionaires and centi-millionaires would want fascism, and would enact it across the Western world.
When Kamala announced her campaign, I deemed her president. Every step of that campaign, as the Republicans careened more extremist-right I became more certain that even their party members would deem them insane. I knew people were struggling financially under Biden, but, that guy’s holding signs reading “MASS DEPORTATIONS”, has two moronic side-kicks (Musk and Vance), and his term was filled with economic hardship. Also, Jan 6th, 2021.
In hindsight I’m ashamed of my naive optimism. I’d beat myself up for it more, if I wasn’t living in the middle of my personalized hell.
It’s hard to hear this, I also scold myself for my expectations and naivety.
Naïveté is the joy and sometimes the pain of youth. I am legitimately glad to hear at least some kids are still reveling in it. The world is a terrible place sometimes and I hope that the youngest are spared that knowledge at least for some time. You’re still relatively young, so don’t beat yourself up over it. If you have the time and ability, getting involved locally, not even necessarily politically, just volunteering somewhere that makes an impact, can be really healing. It’s a great way to build community with amazing people and feel like you’re helping the world get to the place you believed it was, or believe it should be. Best of luck navigating through these trying times. May we all make it out the other side, and may the path through be short.
I’ve been trying to do what I can in this time, online and IRL. It is really disorienting living in this nation, not knowing what’s working or what’s not; or what the situation is going to look like in a week or two. So many assumptions that I had of basic protections and securities are just Gone. I genuinely do not recognize or understand the people or systems around me anymore.
At least if we’re doing something it’s changing the scenario. It’s not like things could get much worse. “rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep” ~Tipu Sultan
I was younger a whole lot longer ago. I though GW Bush was the epitome of stupid in us presidency.
I was fucking wrong.
The ultra wealthy are the ones stealing your future.
They’re also spending a lot of money to make sure as many people as possible do not realise it is the simple existence of the ultra rich causing all the problems.
Wealth creates income that buys more wealth. The share for you and everyone else you know decreases every day, making existence more expensive every day.
We have to tax the ultra wealthy out of existence, and if they don’t allow that the French have proven an effective next step.
Over in the USA, I wish we were seeing this level of awareness. At best we’re seeing swing state voters remember “oh yeah, this is why we voted him out the first time.”
We didn’t ignore reality, we lived in a different one.
Then they brought their reality here, with their fake news and alternative facts. And they took over.
Honestly we need to deport these people back to their original reality.
