For my youth, I always thought the tide would break and things would get better in the U.S., I am now 32 and the re-election of Donald Trump has caused me to completely give up on The United States politically. The U.S. seems hell bent on hanging on to global hegemony even at the cost of collapse rather than bring it down for a soft landing. I believe fascism is here, and it's only going to get worse as material conditions deteriorate and elites divert the rage of the masses against scapegoats such as immigrants and trans people.
Nursing is an in demand job on just about any government's web site. After the re-election of Donald Trump I enrolled in college in order to get a degree in nursing and leave this hell hole permanently. I am half way towards getting my associates degree.
I don't want my tax dollars to continue to be used for genocide, imperialism, mass surveillance, police brutality and corporate subsidies.
Part of me feels like I should stay and resist but I don't think I can stop the rising tide. I've watched friends and family become monsters despite my best efforts.
I do not feel safe in The United States and I believe that I need to leave as soon as possible for my family's as well as my own material well being.
As a compromise to my husband and mother I have chosen Canada, which I'm not happy about. But me and my husband have agreed that it is not forever, we chose Canada because of their ease of immigration and quick recognition of U.S. credentials, as well as there being no language barrier. From there we will search for our forever home. Right now escape and survival are our main concerns.
In my heart I would love to move to China, or Vietnam, but with the information I have it seems basically impossible as a U.S. citizen to do so.
I'm curious what your guy's thoughts are?
Well shit. Someone told me "revolution is like the rapture, it will never come" in an attempt to get me to vote for Kamala. I still wouldn't have done it, but I wonder if they're right. We haven't had a socialist revolution in the world in a long time, I know that's because the US does everything possible to prevent them but I also wonder if the world has just changed. Maybe people nowadays really would rather amuse and distract themselves to death than risk their life on a future they'll never see for future generations that may not even happen. Or if drone warfare will become the overwhelming norm considering how things are going for Iran.
People tend to have a hard time imagining things outside their own lived experience. It's not so much that a revolution will never come, but rather that they haven't seen one in their life time. The living memory for people in the west is that nothing much changes. You have crises and economic meltdowns, but the system manages to right itself in the end and keep going.
But what people miss is that things never quite get back to the same level they were at before each crisis. The mechanics of the system ensure that more and more wealth is funnelled away from the working majority to the oligarchs at the top. And that means that people are less and less able to absorb each successive crisis. So, eventually you do hit an inflection point where the whole system starts coming apart.
As Lenin put it, every society is three hot meals away from chaos. People will distract themselves and ignore problems as long as they can find ways to meet their basic needs. Once there's a critical mass of people that are no longer able to, then all bets are off.