Definitely not the world I planned on living in when I was a kid in the 90s
Yeah there is a definate split in the millenia despite the folks who are like. Its always been like this. No. No it hasn't. We were generally improving pre reagan, that sorta stalled but not completely especially under clinton. 9/11 and the patriot act and citizens united really played a number on our system. I am older and soooo.... lucky I spent to much time in school because if I had just gotten a degree and a good job quickly, I might have done well enough to have had kids before I realized the way things were going. I dodged a bullet.
So the most recent wave of fascism in the US is relatively new but we've had numerous brushes with it in the past. McCarthyism made certain kinds of speech subject to political retaliation in the 1950s just like we're seeing now (well, worse then than now, actually). Outgroups like the Japanese (WW2) and Native Americans (always) have been forcibly moved/removed like we're seeing with basically all people of color and, African Americans in the past were painted like the cause of "societal breakdown" just like LGBT folks increasingly are (another perpetual outgroup). So there's a lot that's the same as before -- it's not right, certainly not. But it's also not new, which is sad.
The good news, though, is that elsewhere in the world, and even in the US, a lot of things are measurably better than before. The first chapter or so of Doughnut Economics does a good job of outlining where we've been successful at reducing poverty and disease and increasing liberties (even if you can't get through the rest of the book, which I did struggle with).
We can (and must) do better. But there's evidence that our efforts do actually improve things sometimes. It's not hopeless.
I would say trump first term was more like the things of the past. We are past brushing at this point. Granted its the reason im in the streets like I will be this afternoon. I did not at trump one because work, wife, life, etc. still have those things but its no choice at this point.
If you don't die in the coming wars, you will probably be able to see the spring after this political winter. So maybe you will still see that world you were planning on living in :)
It’s the same world that’s been here the whole time. The hidden parts are just more out in the open now.
the mask had been fraying and trump ripped it off.
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