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Location: Germany
For me it's the shift to the right in culture and politics that is making me anxious. It not just the US. In Europe there are several countries that have been shifting towards the far right. France, Germany, Netherlands, Finnland, Sweden, Italy... and more. It's a matter of time untill one of the major player, either France or Germany, will have a right wing government. In both countries the current government has failed and on both countries the main reason has been right wing propaganda doing it's work.
This will habe some consequences on many levels, climate deniers beeing in charge and not only stopping, but working against the progress the world has achieved beeing one of them.
You can feel it in the people too, here. It feels like people are staring to dial back on the progressive ideas they express on public. It's going to be harsh world our there for us, who are not amongst the majority.
Realistically, there is no party which is able to look what is coming straight into the eye. Which figures, since sending such a message to the voters is suicidal. So we won't get a managed decline but rather an uncontrolled fall, collapse. We better accept that any mitigation is only possible at personal and small scale community level.
Like yelling fire in a crowded theatre. No politician is going to do it until they are out of the theatre. Antonio Gutterez, the UN secretary general is as close as we've come.
Still, through /r/collapse and the popularizers on you tube, the message is out. Everybody with the capacity to know already knows with the exception of children who are still developing the capacity to understand. Even a lot of children know where we stand.