Environmental degradation and wealth inequality in my opinion are the most pressing issues facing the human race. Not just a particular group or anything but all of humanity.
Now you have people who don’t believe in climate change and you have those who deny or are comfortable with wealth inequality. I realize that those people are in power all over the world but the public, the body of citizens especially in the West do not agree with this. They want change and understand the fact that we have destroyed this planet. They understand the wealthy work against us every day.
Numerous polling and just general populist attitudes everywhere prove that the people want changes on the two issues I mentioned at the start. So why given the vast support for confronting these issues does nothing ever change? If the people are becoming more progressive why is the world getting worse?
Does the general forum of Nationstates have an answer to this? Any opinions?
My opinion is quite simple. I view the Joe Biden’s, the Macron’s, and the Trudeau’s of the world and their voters responsible for failing to act on the most important issue. Mushy moderates who drape their imperialism and capitalism with a rainbow flag. Look at AOC and the squad for example. How is being part of the party that is comfortable droning brown people in the Middle East considered progressive?
The neoliberal capitalist elite realize that social conservatism and religion is dying out. Especially among Generation Z. They are aware we are becoming more “woke” on race and LGBT issues, as we should be.
And that’s the trap. I’ve come to realize that most people despite agreeing with me on wealth inequality and the environment they don’t think those are the most pressing issues. No, the spectre of racism and mean words on twitter is the main focus apparently.
We can fix our environment through technology and as a last resort developing our space program to get off this doomed rock. We can punish and lock away those who hoard the wealth. We can change economic and political systems.
What we can’t do is social engineer racism away. Prejudice will always be part of human nature. Given the sun will envelop our planet in five billion years I don’t think we have time to evolve on that. I could be wrong but that’s not what is killing us. You can ban people you can suppress them even kill and imprison them. Tribalism is part of human nature.
White supremacy, National Socialism, and Fascism have zero institutional support. There are no large organizations of relevance, no corporations or governments pushing these ideologies. Just because you grew up in a racist town and saw some transphobic things on twitter doesn’t mean you live in a “white power” state.
But many Americans will say what about us! The problems facing the most disadvantaged come from white people?
I don’t agree with that at all. It’s rich people regardless of colour regardless of background screwing us to make a buck. Destroying the planet just to see their personal fortune rise. Some of those people might be racist but they are doing what they are doing not in the name of ethnic nationalism or white power, it’s about green power.
Money is what drives our elite not racial supremacy. It’s easy to beat up your local Nazi and think your fighting the state.
But your not! Your better off doing that to a CEO of a multinational corporation because that person not your local racist is the one who is the source of our ills.
It might feel good to live your fake Allied powers anti fa fantasy but in the end you accomplish nothing.
Democracy now exists to give woke corporations the keys to power.
Just because you happen to support trans rights and BLM that doesn’t mean you are suddenly a progressive. Your just either picking the safest issues or using them to advance an agenda that is driving us to extinction.
