Please don't let the media get inside your head like this. This type of fear mongering plays into the narrative that there's nothing to be done in the US and that there is more hope for... what? progress? elsewhere. There was just a thread here yesterday about other countries' false sense of superiority and how that breaks down international solidarity among the left and working class, while masking US imperialist influence on the right. For individuals, this shit is demoralizing at best and more likely paralyzing to meaningful, direct action.
Not necessarily directed at you OP, but I just need to vent a bit: I'm so tired of American exceptionalism - as if it's so special that it's exceptionally bad. The same general problems are seen everywhere, just to weaker and stronger degrees, because the same systemic causes are everywhere. Good luck finding a job in the EU if you're not a native speaker of the business' working language, especially during a recession when anti-immigrant sentiment is so strong that we also have camps on the fucking borders. So move to an English-friendly country and you might find yourself lacking access to decent quality healthcare either because it's pay-walled, simply unavailable to you, or both. Also, look at the EU as a geographic region, roughly comparable in size to the US and you'll see our covid infections rates have often been worse than the US over the past few months.
The US is both the heart of and pacemaker of our imperial capitalist problems and so it's important to pay attention to, but we need more solidarity among the left and working class in the US, not less. And we need to keep cool heads, collect ourselves, and look at these problems head-on.
Please don't let the media get inside your head like this. This type of fear mongering plays into the narrative that there's nothing to be done in the US and that there is more hope for... what? progress? elsewhere. There was just a thread here yesterday about other countries' false sense of superiority and how that breaks down international solidarity among the left and working class, while masking US imperialist influence on the right. For individuals, this shit is demoralizing at best and more likely paralyzing to meaningful, direct action.
Not necessarily directed at you OP, but I just need to vent a bit: I'm so tired of American exceptionalism - as if it's so special that it's exceptionally bad. The same general problems are seen everywhere, just to weaker and stronger degrees, because the same systemic causes are everywhere. Good luck finding a job in the EU if you're not a native speaker of the business' working language, especially during a recession when anti-immigrant sentiment is so strong that we also have camps on the fucking borders. So move to an English-friendly country and you might find yourself lacking access to decent quality healthcare either because it's pay-walled, simply unavailable to you, or both. Also, look at the EU as a geographic region, roughly comparable in size to the US and you'll see our covid infections rates have often been worse than the US over the past few months.
The US is both the heart of and pacemaker of our imperial capitalist problems and so it's important to pay attention to, but we need more solidarity among the left and working class in the US, not less. And we need to keep cool heads, collect ourselves, and look at these problems head-on.