My mantra is, we've lost the present (meaning the next few decades at least), but we will win the future.
What is the shape of that future, if we're being just slightly optimistic?
My mantra is, we've lost the present (meaning the next few decades at least), but we will win the future.
What is the shape of that future, if we're being just slightly optimistic?
Personally I like to think that as more U.S. millenials and zoomers take over political positions, we'll see a gradual shrinkage of the military and a partial defunding and disarmament of the police. The welfare system will expand slightly to maybe include a public option and $15 will become the new federal minimum wage. Union membership among the total labor pool will increase to maybe something like 20%.
The empire will still collapse (which is a good thing in and of itself), but the worst excesses of overt ecofascism that could come from that collapse will be mitigated.
Again, this is my optimistic take.
I like your optimistic take - but I think we're likely to experience something akin to The Troubles in Ireland along the way.
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God I guess that goes to show how sad my version of optimism has become. I look at The Troubles Come to America as one of the optimistic outcomes lol. Like you said, avoiding eco-fascism and eventually successfully limiting police and military harm would be great... But I don't expect society to successfully reintegrate all of those Chud cops and soldiers. I guess if the phase out happened over time it wouldn't be as drastic, but can you imagine laying off 20-30% of cops? That's gonna be a bad time.