u/JITTERdUdE - originally from r/GenZhou
Something that’s been in my mind recently. Shit looks like it’s going to hit the fan over the next several years. Seeing how easily the population has slipped into a Russophobic rage through disinformation and propaganda shows that the seeds for fascism have already been planted here. This country’s government does everything to actively suppress communist movements and are attempting to exhaust Marxist-Leninist efforts.
I have developed two reactions to this, one cynical and one more optimistic, but I struggle to tell which one is closer to reality. The cynical side of me thinks that this country has fallen too far into the deep end and can’t be saved, that communism cannot happen in a place like this, and it’s better to leave and start elsewhere than stay and possibly die at the hands of fascists. The other part of me believes that choice could be cowardly, and it is better to stay and create communist infrastructure and protect the marginalized.
u/kimjongUSA - originally from r/GenZhouThis is something that’s been on my mind for a while. The personal answer is easy as being in the US is a liability to my mental health and not worth the trouble. I’ve lived abroad for almost ten years and there’s no reason for me to force myself to re-adapt among all the chaos and insanity which is increasing everyday. I’m lucky that I have a background with China and know the language, so I’ll be headed back there, ideally permanently.
But as for what the country will look like in the next few years/decades; personally I think the standard of living will continue to decline and people will be pushed further and further into delusion and they refuse to investigate and uncover root causes. For the average American: business as usual, and they’ll likely continue to defend the US and the greatest country on Earth and as a “functional democracy” all while watching the country sink deeper and deeper into global irrelevance. The economic bubble formed by imperialism, propaganda, and campaign lobbying will thus deflate over the long term rather than pop, and as such people will be none the wiser to its existence. At this time there will probably be mass migration of Americans to the countries of their ancestors, in effort to try to cling to some sort of cultural legacy, only to find out that Europe is also a shell of whatever it once was. They might then delude themselves into thinking all is well, and if not they may start awakening to communism, but only after expending all other options.
All that is if the US doesn’t decide to make one last ditch effort to remain relevant by starting war with China, which will probably wipe humanity off the face of the planet.