Shit feels terrible. I live in the Imperial Core, and of course, I always hear about the news all the time after Election Day. As a high-schooler, I feel particularly helpless and stuck.
Yeah, I know, I know - the Dems are just as bad as Trump but man, is it fucking disheartening to the point where it goes full cycle and ends up being straight up comical (I mean Amerikkkan bs has always been comical but this time its reaching some crazy fucking levels of face-off comical clownery shit), to see Trump appoint the absolute WORST and most irredeemable pieces of shit to office. Like fucking hell, of course Chris Wright, a Big Oil mogul is the leader of the Department of Energy, and RFK - Mr. Brain Worms himself as the Health Department leader, not to mention the whole Elon Musk DOGE and the abolishing the Department of Education bullshit Trump is also doing.
I mean, the billionaires and the corporate fascist oligarchs were always destined to win in the Empire no matter what but fuck damn - the speed and magnitude of this shitstorm is taking even me by surprise (although admittedly, I very well shouldn't be surprised). Everything is fucked in the first place - the climate, the people, everything that actually matters is fucked. I knew this from the start but shit, does it still hurt.
I apologize if this sound a bit too US-defaultist but I just want to kinda vent from my own perspective and ask for advice. Thanks comrades.
i saw this somewhere else on lemmy and i think it applies here: people lived rich and fulfilling lives despite the roman empire actively collapsing all around them.
we're getting more farcical for a myriad of reasons, but chief among them are the cool aide drinking and the willful ignorance against learning why things are fucked.
it takes time and effort to read and understand something like theory and that guarantees that the people who don't bother will vastly outnumber everyone else, so asshatery like you're seeing is a part of life (for now). the stuff that they wrote down over 100 years is still 100% relevant and also still helps identify what's going to roll down the hill next.
trying to understand why things are fucked has helped me immensely in coping with all the asshatery; it seems like you've already started your own work by posting here so maybe it'll help you too.