I hope the social democrats will win in the US and the UK.
Just so the utopians will realize that, as a planet, society and species, we are still totally fucked.
The political problems this would address are like two layers up from the base at which we are totally fucked.
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We are thermodynamically, ecologically, anthropologically fucked.
Present extractivist politics worsen the problem, but are not THE problem.
And at this scale, soon it will make no difference at all.
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Of course, this has nothing to do with the much more reasonable 'I'd like better wages and also to not die from lack of access to insulin'.