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Seeing and hearing what I have these past few days has driven home to me the dichotomy of how the last year has changed us: societal attitudes have moved to the left, while societal power is still stumbling rightward. Not entirely; some figures are getting voted out of office. Right now, my city no longer has a confederate statue, but still has a mayor more on the side of big business than anyone else. Yet there's a good chance we might actually get rid of him in a month's time-though maybe less because of that than because he put too many bike lanes in and pissed a lot of people off with the traffic increase!
Thus we see on the national level, the discourse get more progressive and anti-fascist. And yet the Republicans are still setting things up to hand the country back to Trump in four years time anyway, and we might not be able to stop them, and the Supreme Court is still preparing to destroy Roe-amoung other things. On the international level, more people are finally calling Israel out on their mass atrocities-but they're just worsening their behavior, knowing the U.S. will still be good for support until we can disentangle ourselves from our own imperialism.
It's early enough that there's still a hope that if we scream long enough, things might still truly turn around. But I fear things might again get worse before they get better.