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I worry that the (moderate) Trump/Brexit voters will not be persuaded that they have made a mistake until something cataclysmic happens. Hopefully it'll only be an economic disaster, but I worry that hand in hand with that will come violence on a domestic scale that none of us have ever experienced. I really hope I'm being overly pessimistic.
THe rise of the far right in the western world suggests that capitalism in its current form will have to be drastically changed; after all that is the cause of the root problems that has people voting for anti-establishment figures. If it is going to change, there's going to be a period of upheaval and fuck knows what else. It has to change, otherwise we're all fucked anyway. We're so close to the point where we've pumped too much CO2 into the atmosphere that there's no going back, but most big corporations rely on constant growth and resource use.
Aaaanyway, back to Trump. Jeff Sessions - racist. Michael Flynn - racist and Russian-owned. Mike Pompeo - racist pro lifer.
It's like Brexit, really. People voted for a change and then ended up getting the absolute most extreme version of whatever it is they thought they were voting for.
I don't know what is to be done, really. I imagine at least that Trump's America is going to be so fucking extreme that the dems could put a dog in a vest up as their candidate in 4 years time and they'd walk it - but then that's what we assumed about Hilary. Brexit, there's no going back for a generation so, yay, we're fucked and our children are fucked.