Originally posted by San Bernardhinault
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I think it will just take a while, sadly.*
Climate change and health care are the issues that are most likely to cause change because they affect the most people. Abortion, immigration, even voting rights are not visible to a lot of people, especially white people.
But it's getting harder and harder for people in the south and west to pretend climate change isn't real and the ongoing collapse of the health system, such as it is, is becoming more and more evident to more people.
It's all just overwhelmingly bad and it's put me in one of the darkest places I've ever been.
But then I also realize that it's an enormous and obscene privilege to feel that way. For many (most?) Black people, women, natives, etc, this is the world they've always lived in. They have managed, so I guess I can too.
* Then again, we don't really know because I don't think there's any precedent for our current combination of factors since the industrial revolution. Maybe the closest comparison I can imagine would be the French Revolution in that it had a huge gap in wealth and an idiotic form of government that was also extremely unpopular. But it didn't really have a middle-class or industry so it's not much of a comp.
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