I find things scarier and scarier. I hate the US and everything they stand for, but I don't hate ordinary Americans, and they're the ones who are going to pay the price for this.
China is going to be interesting. Some in the US scoff, but they forget their history. China really is the oldest nation in the world still going, and for them, this must have a sense of coming full circle. And, horribly, they're in a better position because they're not a democracy. Its hard to see such a thing as the Tea Party existing in China: theyd either be taken out and shot or would succeed in a coup. Either way has more stability than their constant obstruction and nagging in the US.
I have never believed in western democracy really, I'm an anarcho-socialist at heart, but I will be sad to see it collapse in favor of dictatorship or a new extreme-right war machine.
I think thats the scariest thing; that Ive read about conditions like this - the great depression, the rise of the right, the need for war as a way of restarting the global economy. I feel in my gut that a lot of people are going to die in suffering over the next couple of decades.
And jesus, don't even get me started on climate change and our lack of sustainability as a species. From the planet's point of view a nice big die off might be a good thing...nukes aren't that big a deal from a geological perspective....
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