just forward
The world governments and ruling classes are far-right.
The general population, particularly millennials and zoomers, are moving left.
Yea, all the zoomers I know are really pro war against Russia…
Most don’t seem to mind going to war against China either…
Many also disappointed that the US left Afghanistan
Many thinks that bombing Iraq and Libya were justified because Saddam and Gaddafi were bad
As a zoomer I get a little frustrated sometimes seeing people here think we’re this vanguard that can save everyone from ourselves in due time. There are more left economic views than among old people, but I promise you all, most of us are not socialists and even for those that are, there is a hell of a lot of work to do educationally. Anti-imperialism is by far the largest stumbling block in my experience.
is that even true?
Yes: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlQs83RX0AIHX_S?format=png&name=900x900
I feel like the masses are moving left on balance, but the reaction is that the people moving right are moving that way faster (and of course they hold most of the positions of power)
bofa
On average it seems like a gradual leftward shift, but personally I worry whether the trend is too unfocused and slow to affect things too much. After all, there are weapons capable of ending virtually all life that have been sitting around, collecting dust. The leftward shift could snowball though and potentially turn into something, it really depends how well the propaganda can hold up and how much wealth the Western ultrawealthy are willing and able to part with in the short term to shore up their support and whether they are able to attain technological supremacy over all peoples somehow.
It’s safe to assume that the imperialists headquartered in the United States are going to try everything possible to keep the unsustainable sham at home afloat, at least for the mortgage-holding professional class that’s automating all the surveillance tech, war machines, computers, algorithms, and financialization for their envisioned police planet. The longer things drag out, the more likely it is that this will involve recalling investments from Europe, which is probably why Eastern Europe is being setup as the next :freedom-and-democracy: site right now.
It seems like for the US and Western Europe there is probably a much more overt fascist turn domestically looming, which can also serve as a sort of recalling of investments from the underclasses. If the finish line is close, there might be a genuine parting with wealth in order to prevent labour unrest, like what was possible via extraction in the Global South post-WW2, based on the expectation that their technological domination will allow them to quickly recall that wealth.
In my mind, the future is decided by the timing and aptitude of the aforementioned police planet technologies, whether China avoids addiction to capitalism, whether/when the Sino-US War breaks out & obviously whether it goes thermonuclear, to what extent the domestic constituents of current NATO powers like UK/France/Germany are able to be crushed similarly to the US.
