If our current global political reality was presented as the dystopian future in something like Terminator, Bladerunner, or 12 Monkeys, it would have bombed because it was too unbelievable.
“Loved the world building, but a future where Donald Trump, a New York sleezeball, has overthrown the American government with the support of the Supreme Court, the Republican Party, and the religious right and his ICE gestapo soldiers are rounding up Americans, is just too bizarre of a choice. It killed my suspension of disbelief. 1.5 stars” - Pulitzer Prize judge, 1992
What further horrors await us, it’s barely April. Rounded to the nearest year, Trump still has 4 more years. 🤮
Like many liberal people in my country with Pooh-teen, no one believed it’s even possible to degrade that quickly, and many still believe it’s not really happening and can be undone in a couple of swift changes.
I think EU can take some lessons from two countries already declined in recent times.