Suddenly
As if this hasn’t been going on for decades.
My solution is to do the very minimum I can to get by and otherwise enjoy my minimalist life. Fuck consumerism with a 10ft pole. Let it rot.
I mean things were looking up and then Trump happened
Trump is a symptom of the US, not the cause.
Capitalism has been rotting out the interior of the industrialized world for decades. The dogged belief that Gore or Kerry or Hillary or Harris would have insulated the US (much less the rest of the world) from the same foibles and failures committed by Clinton and Obama and Biden is painfully naive. Nevermind the disastrous administrations of Trudeau and Starmer and Felipe Caldaron.
The idea that you just need a competent liberal technocrat in charge to make a country work never seems to bare out in practice. We get an earful about liberal reforms that will fix everything, but then those reforms either never arrive or get so watered down in the offering that they’re meaningless.
Trump’s revanchism is actively breaking a rotted out institutional economy. But we’ve been living in a progressively-more-gutted-out house since the end of the Reagan Admin. “The Free Market” is the root of this decay, not any one of its particularly boorish champions.
Same thing happened to the millennials… It’s almost like it’s planned…
Welcome to your fourth or fifth once-in-a-lifetime crisis!
As a millennial (in the middle) I legit assumed this was referring to me 😅
Everything has been a downward slide our entire lives which means it also rolls downhill for all the future generations too until someone can yank back on the economic flightstick and get us out of this dive.
stall horn intensifies
