how does one remain optimistic and hopeful, given what’s happening in the us right now?

this is coming from someone who supports revolutionary optimism and such. seriously!

  • limer@lemmy.ml
    7·
    3 days ago

    I feel comfort by looking at my country’s (usa) history over the last two generations.

    What is there to feel comfort about? There are only losses to see, there is no progress on most things important in socialism. Society is on autopilot. In many respects, the billionaires and corrupt mess seems to have won. It’s definitely depressing.

    But… there is hope. And for that we need history. The USA has experienced social disintegration and population movement over the last two generations. And this is much more than the original Industrial Revolution. All countries have experienced this, but in the USA, the population movements and stretching of social bonds are an order of magnitude more than most because there is simply so much space for people to relocate.

    This relocation has stalled political change, and eliminated politics on the local scale. At the same time, the types of ways people communicate and organize is exponentially evolving, even now.

    I feel like what this means is that there is huge potential for change. I’m not sure how and why or when change will occur, but when it does happen this will occur quickly. Much like a rubber band being stretched too far and popping back.

    And everyone will be caught by surprise at the speed of political change. I’m not saying that it will be change welcomed by socialists. It may be something else, or chaos.

    But I think the best way I can contribute is to be in my own small community, helping to prepare for a change that may happen next year, or ten years later

      • limer@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 days ago

        I feel like the elections are manipulated to extract wealth from the population. This means democrats will probably control congress next election, and most probably next a democratic president. Followed by another gop series of victories.

        Trump is there because of an unmonitored and corrupt system. Most likely he did not win the primaries in 2016.

        I also feel that Trump is more a symptom of something worse than him

        • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          how do you think this can be solved from a socialist/communist perspective? oh and what do you mean by “something worse”?

          • limer@lemmy.ml
            4·
            2 days ago

            Elections will never fix this mess. New political parties cannot install reform.

            Later, when local politics do become possible, in my hypothetical above, socialists must come out on top. If not, things will never change.

            Communism in the USA is the only thing that can prevent a lot of suffering lasting decades or more.

            As for something worse: there is a lot bad going on, families going hungry, people dying of preventable disease. The list of that continues for several pages.

            This country, as it is, cannot help them, their communities cannot make things better for most. That is scary.

            Most of the crimes Trump is doing is backed and empowered by other crimes and injustices, In the grand scheme of things, who is in power there is not so important as the system itself. Trump is like a bruise showing up on the skin resulting from cancer. The bruise is unsightly but ultimately insignificant.

            • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              do you think revolution is the best option we have, and what can we do to unite both progressives AND conservatives in the cause of socialism?

            • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              are you talking about a one-party country (where only the communist party is the sole legal party), or a multi-tendency country (the communist party is the sole legal party, but multiple factions of the party appear as if they’re different parties; the communist party work with like-minded socialist parties in a ‘vanguard coalition’; or multiple like-minded socialist/communist parties compete the way other countries do)?