The lockstep calls for a fucking war with Russia across the political spectrum, including by probably 99% of the US left, has convinced me that change for the better is impossible in this country and will be for the forseeable future. People still got World Cop mindset and refuse to let it go. Memories like fucking goldfish, like the last 70 years of US interventionism just don't count or some shit. This country needs to be humbled.
Made a whole damn account just to vent because it seems like this is the only place to do it without people saying you lick Putin's boots.
At this point I just don't know if there's anything that can be done. Generations of attempts to change things have failed, over and over and over. This generation of US socialists has already accepted defeat even if we don't want to admit it, and I don't blame anyone for throwing in the towel.
Pretty much every American alive today will die fighting for the last scraps of bread in the ruins of their local supermarket, cheering on the latest foreign misadventure fought by trillion-dollar killer robots.
This is going against the flow for this comm, I know, and the urgency of the climate crisis (among a host of other environmental issues) diminishes this point, but consider this:
The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848. That means that, if a generation is 25 years, we've had only 7 generations since then. It took about 2 generations for those ideas to filter out into the world, and by the end of the 3rd generation afterward, the first socialist revolution had occurred. The clash of civilizations that occurred following that event took roughly 3 generations more, and now here we are, a bit more than one single generation later. And yeah, things seem pretty bleak right now, especially in the US. But politically, at least, they seemed a ton worse in the early aughts, when Al Franken was pretty much the leftmost voice in US culture.
In essence, the left lost the first global "battle," but the war goes on, and it seems like there is at least some momentum on the left here in the US. It's just, as you say, that things like this Ukraine conflict make it painfully clear how far we have yet to go.