europe

Jesus, I hate how much you could just change names and contextual cues and you'd have a pretty good description of what will probably happen in Brazil very soon. In fact, that applies to most countries where the "left" is a bunch of neolibs masquerading, which is, well, most countries in the West.

It sucks that we're essentially stuck in this ever-repeating cycle where the left alternative is gagged and repressed. It's just an eternal repetition of right-wing psychos pillaging the state, then being replaced by the polite neolib alternative when the pressure gets too high. Nothing improves fundamentally, so the right-wing pretends to be populist and snatches power back again, promising change. Rinse and repeat. This eternal pressure cooker existence fucking sucks.

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death, but if we work like really hard we can scoop up all the blood and put it back in the machine, because the machine is essentially good, we just need to make sure the right people are pulling the levers.