No Doomer Here

A while back, I was in a conversation on Discord about the current US political situation and someone mentioned wanting to move to another country. I said that nowhere is safe from the Trump administration and I was going to elaborate, but then somebody called me a doomer and a couple other people got in on it. This made me feel a little dogpiled, so I didn't say anything else. I wasn't trying to be doomer, but maybe I should've just said everything I wanted in one message. I usually do precisely because it leads to misunderstandings.

But it's true. Nowhere is safe. After the election, people thought blue states would be safe, and they're clearly not. Foreign countries aren't safe, the kidnapping of Maduro and Trump's constant threats towards Greenland and Canada show that much. On top of all that, all across the world, nuclear arsenals are still on a hair trigger. If things heat up, there's a very good chance that everything will be destroyed.

Now you might be wondering, how the Hell am I not engaging in doomerism when I say that?

Because we're winning. It might not seem like it. ICE, Trump's personal army, is terorizing the country, with Minnesota as its current focus. He's trying to rig the midterms to avoid impeachment. The economy is taking a nosedive, propped up by a tech industry obsessed with keeping the LLM bubble from popping, even as it's rapidly failing. Bad things are happening all over, and the world seems a darker, crueler place.

But guess what? Nobody is taking this lying down. Even after the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, I've seen plenty of videos of people standing up to ICE, literally getting up in front of their vehicles and shouting at them. Just a little bit ago, I saw a video from LA where people were blocking them in a building by putting garbage in front of the entrances. The rest of NATO is gearing up for a fight that Trump will almost certainly back down from. Trump is so toxic, that he's been stalling other fascist movements. Even his attempts to rig the midterms are failing.

We're not out of the woods yet. We need to keep fighting, and we also have to think about the future. Once Trump is gone, we will have to accept that things won't go back to the way they were, nor should they. The US will need to become a better citizen of the world, and make amends not just for Trump's actions, but for countless other transgressions against the world. It will be hard to commit to this, the people who support Trump will still exist after he's gone, but it's worth working towards. If we all play our cards right, this may end up healthier for the world, anyway. No single country should have this much power.

So yes, I stand by my statement. Nowhere is safe from Trump. This isn't a fight we can run away from, but it is a fight we can win.