Oh, I’m definitely not expecting the US to do the right thing, or even the less awful thing
I fully expect laws to be broken, people to be persecuted, and the entire system thrown into such disarray that your backwards excuse for a country becomes a dictatorship akin to Russia
But there’s a small part of me that thinks that maybe it won’t
I’m feeling a very dangerous thing:
Hope
I was pretty close to writing 'Murica off as a lost cause. You lot keep doing the most fucking horrible things
Please don’t break my heart yet again
I guess the saying is true.
America will do the right thing. After trying everything else.
But other Western nations, please learn from our mistakes. Don’t let populists win, fucking block Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok
Oh, I’m definitely not expecting the US to do the right thing, or even the less awful thing
I fully expect laws to be broken, people to be persecuted, and the entire system thrown into such disarray that your backwards excuse for a country becomes a dictatorship akin to Russia
But there’s a small part of me that thinks that maybe it won’t
It’s a fucking small part.
The most dangerous possible thing right now would be for people to see this small victory, claim “mission accomplished” and quit fighting.
This is so damned true.
Like how people relaxed once Biden was voted in, thinking that America had learnt what a clusterfuck Trump was
Yanks never seem to learn
To be an optimist, you have to plan for the worst case scenario
Blind optimism is the bad thing.