If you think it’s bad now, it’s gonna get worse in the coming years.
Reading and analysing what’s been happening around us for the past 10-20 years, it’s clear that we’re in a Nazi Germany situation. And when fascism will be here, we will ask “how did that happen?”
The future looks bleak.
Everything you say is true … For the imperial core. In the global south things are looking much more positive. Cuba, Vietnam, China have all been taking very positive steps lately with respect to LGBT rights. A good number of leftist (albeit only socdem) governments in Latin America have been pushing back against neoliberalism. The global south is asserting itself economically and breaking free from neo-colonial domination. Yes there are still some countries where the imperialists are able to cause trouble, to temporarily reverse progress with coups like the ones that have taken place in Pakistan and Peru. But a lot of countries that have been in the crosshairs of the US for regime change are proving to be more and more resilient to US hybrid war and color revolution attempts. Iran, Syria, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, the empire has been taking a lot of L’s. And more will follow, some very big ones like losing the proxy war in Ukraine. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, India, all once solid US allies now drifting away from the imperialist camp. Most of the world does not buy into the west’s propaganda about the Ukraine conflict. Most of the world regularly denounces the US embargo on Cuba, and everyone but the Anglos (US, UK, CAN, AUS), the Zionist apartheid state and the Europeans voted with Russia in the resolution against the spread of Nazi ideology. You have to put things in perspective. Yes westerners are very brainwashed and very reactionary and only getting worse. But at the end of the day they are a clear minority of the world’s population.
What about in terms of power projection?
The ability of the west to project power globally is waning at an accelerated rate as the global south develops economically and technologically. There are three components to power: economic, military and cultural. The latter two ultimately derive from the economic base. Without the global economic (and technological) dominance that the west has enjoyed up to now their power cannot be maintained. Every year the west makes up a smaller portion of the global economic pie. De-industrialized and sliding ever deeper into economic crisis the US is already overextended militarily. It still enjoys dominance in the media and cultural (hollywood, etc.) arenas for now, but that too will change, if somewhat slower. In a multipolar world a singular cultural hegemony cannot exist.
Thank you for giving a ray of hope. We need it to fight the fascism