Well, tbf the EU does seem the singular holdout. Which helps explain why the UK was targeted for Brexit, and the USA by Faux News for takeover by its own internal right-wingers, and now the rest of the EU might have to stand up to Russia + USA (& maybe Xi will manage to charm Trump to extend that alliance still further?), at which point how could it hold out for long? Though it still would remain as it is for a few more years yet (even possibly measured in decades?), so for you personally that idea might still hold merit. And, possibly none of my worst fears here may come to pass, America (and the UK) could “wake up” and resist fascism after all? I doubt it, bc the way technology is changing makes it favorable for a tech bro to gain authoritarian control - globalization and automation and especially corporatization have all radically altered the landscape compared to the 60s and 70s when democracies were more favorable.

Oops, hit send way too early. Yeah life is not fair, and if it helps, the citizens of the USA are much more likely to die in nuclear fire and radiation than a nation that has already stabilized into an authoritian regime.

It’s worth being angry if that helps consider the various possibilities, but also there are small joys to be found in life that anger often destroys, so it helps to try to set it aside even if only for an hour or two each day if at all possible, so as to allow room for life itself to breathe in those spaces.

As you said. Bc being in your country keeps you always “on edge” (another way to phrase that is keeping you “sharp”). The decadence of the West was always going to be a temporary thing, and many of us are going to be shocked, Shocked I say, SHOCKED to find out that the real world does not function as we hoped. But we should not have been so shocked, or really shocked at all. It’s just another kind of sickness - a different form than what your country has but similar in causing stress in life.

My thing is: in order to cure a disease you have to first understand it. I don’t, personally. And then second you have to know where you want to head towards. And again I don’t know that either. Maybe I could recognize a good plan if I heard one told, but even there, I am so cynical that I don’t even trust my own self there, based on past experiences. So… I wait to see what happens.