You may not know it, but we are in the fight of our lives. In the USA, UK and Europe, the far right are gaining ground. Trump is already, effectively, a dictator. Empty vessel Starmer is in the pockets of corporations and private equity. All the Western nations, with a few exceptions, are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Now, we wake up in 2026 to see the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife in an illegal attack on Venezuela by Donald Trump. The media, what was left of it, is controlled by oligarchs
So what has happened to humanity? What have we become as humans? Why are some of us voting for and supporting racist, grifting scum like Nigel Farage? How did we get here?
Well, none of this is new. We have lived through many centuries of war, oppression, empire and genocide, with a ruling class dictation the outcomes. I wrote about the toxicity of Western culture in this post - racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, lavery, empire and settler colonialism have been rife for many centuries.
In the later 20th century, after WWII, with rising equality and prosperity, we thought all this had changed for the better. I was lucky enough to grow up in this time when we thought that things could only get better. They are getting worse.
As I have said many times on this blog, all we can do is work together, resist, and organise to bring about real, positive change. This needs to happen from the grassroots upwards. The people need to take control. No more fake 'democracy' and domination by corporations and oligarchs. We need to foster empathy and humanity, supporting our brothers and sisters. This may seem like a daunting task, but we can make it happen!
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