It’s actually why I don’t see any forcing back to normalcy happening. If there were extremists on both sides it’d be a kind of level playing field, and someone in the center could rally support for reforms to stop the chaos. As it is, democracy is just being hollowed out bit by bit, and there’s no incentive to stop.
It must be nice to have the privilage to immigrate to wherever you want lol.
Really they don’t. The only group that can switch countries painlessly is the super rich, and even then it’s not universal - some don’t want foreigners regardless of how much money they bring.
What’s your plan to get into Japan? It’s not a place that likes immigration.
Do people actually let you speak it, or do they just reply in English?
We’ve been here before.
Like what, the Civil War era? Obviously Trump is not Bush or Reagan or Eisenhower.
I’d like to point out that nobody in Australia hates the wildlife. It’s all small, shy or confined to the water. It has issues too but I wouldn’t avoid it just over that one.
I haven’t noticed a change in my daily life based on who is president for my entire life.
I mean, that’s true everywhere, even long-authoritarian places. It takes time for the crap happening at the top to roll down.
Obviously, it eventually does.
I’d help you, to what degree I can, which is not too much.
If you’re stuck, I’m just sorry about that, no attitude at all.
In a lot of ways what I see the US turning into is a lot like China. So yeah, that would be tough.
To visit. Immigrating is a whole other thing - this BBC retrospective paints a pretty clear picture in the section about the village. I remember reading an account of somebody that’s been going to the same corner store run by the same guy for decades, but who still gets followed around because “foreigners commit crime”.
Looking Asian might make it worse if anything, because Japan has less than awesome relations with other Asian countries, and some of them come with a poverty stigma.
I’m afraid not. Although, that’s the least of your problems if you’re coming to Canada. You need to qualify competitively and immigration levels are tight right now, while our housing market catches up. If you can do that, getting a job as an educated American should be easy.
What I can do at my current moment in life basically amounts to personal favours, that’s it. I’m not even in a convenient location for crashing.
What are they going to do if you don’t pay?
Where does it say that? As far as I can tell it’s just job offers.
But yes, our housing market got fucked so we’re scaling immigration back for a few years. Hopefully we get back to it afterwards, since from our perspective it’s free population, and obviously it’s good for the immigrants.
Two out of the five never got real political power, though. Meanwhile McCarthyism blew over because it was just a component of a larger panic within a healthy democracy, and the Contract with America looks like it amounted to a slight reorganisation of congress in the end.
The whole racist South thing is a more reasonable comparison. Although it was a time when things went by region a lot more, and the larger north could apply pressure. I can’t really see a Lincoln or fifteenth amendment coming to the rescue the same way this time around. Just, who’s left to stand up to MAGA?
I should probably throw in the Gilded Age too as it seems to fit with our current situation nicely. We had a decent progressive push after the last one.
Sort of? Inequality took on a different character after Teddy, but the roaring 20’s is often lumped into the gilded age anyway. That’s because it wasn’t really a political (or spiritual) movement so much as wealth self-accumulating like it always tends to in agricultural civilisation. You were right to leave it out.
Hmm. Well, that’s true, what’s emerging is a lot more of a corrupt morass than an actual, defined one-party system like China has. Maybe something else will grow out of it, but that remains to be seen.
How it acts on the world stage more China-like though. Nativist, aggressive and clueless but still taken seriously because they’re so huge. Probably the economic policy too - China is a lot more protectionist than Russia.