No I’m not catastrophising.
The world is slowly lurching towards a fully fascist led America, India, Hungary, Russia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Argentina.
Instead people are either ignorant or blaming “wokeism”* for their problems.
I have no clue what to do and this is literally a car crash in slow motion.
I’m despondent because I’m going to be crushed under the boot when the time comes and my morals get in the way of my survival instinct.
Humans are repeating the mistakes of the past. It’s just so anxiety inducing.
*Woke is a useless term promulgated by fascists to dog whistle the things they really want to hate - feminism, socialism, LGBTQIA+, immigration, brown/black people, equality and diversity.
The UK won't be far behind. Our left leaning party is likely to get in at the next election, but the overton window has shifted faaaar in the past 10-15 years and today's labour may just be yesterday's Tories. Who's to say what tomorrow's Tories will be...
The only hope is that Labour are enacting a strategy of just getting elected first. Once they're in they can start moving to the left a bit more.
From listening to people in the know, there is still hope that Labour are in a phase of "underpromising" so that they can't be accused of irresponsibility. When government stops actively making things worse with its every decision, the economy may start to recover, at which point the government's economic levers might start to be worth pulling. Right now we just have to stop lurching, and start making friends with Europe again.