I wonder if the comparisons are just lazy journalism. Saying “it’s like that” has to be much less effort than properly summarising the content.

The comparison I’d reach for is STALKER tbh but I’m trying to let it be its own thing in my mind. Because mumbles I’m looking forward to trying it as I really like fallout…

I don’t think all Americans are ignorant / facist / etc. But the last election shows that enough are and enough of the rest are at best apathetic about it…

Just like I don’t think all my fellow Brits are dumb, but Brexit and the rise of our own “poundshop Trump” idiots like Farage shows that enough of my fellow countrymen have the same issues.

And we’re far from alone.

Maybe an even better idea than thinking “some people are dumb” is to work out why there’s such a large number of people out there apparently totally disenfranchised by traditional politics in their own country to the point where extremism becomes attractive. Understanding people probably starts with stopping lumping them together as “dumb”…

I’m one of the many recent immigrants from reddit so I guess that’s my start to alternatives.

I don’t think I can walk away from many of the American tech services I use, but what I have done is reviewed what I use, change what I can and walk away from what I can. I’ve curtailed my optional spend on American companies, goods, and services. We can all do that at least.

We never should have left of course but right now I don’t think we’re ready yet to be an EU member in good standing. Not while people are listening to fuherage here, not while right-wing extremism is on the rise elsewhere in Europe.

Digest the decadent

That’s valid. I vastly simplified things I know, and there’s lots I don’t understand about it. People want to feel heard and they aren’t getting that from most of the traditional political parties.

I’ve voted both Labour and (in the past) conservative in my time and I think both parties are currently guilty of taking a lot of things and a lot of people for granted who expect better.

It’s really not to my tastes if I’m being honest, but for all that I think the decor works, it’s got a coherent feel and hangs together.

I don’t ’get these people’ either. But clearly, popularist politicians everywhere do get them. All their lives they’ve heard promises from the ‘traditional’ left and right wing parties that have made little impact on their daily lives that they can see. They’re still in a terrible job, still hearing the media rattling on about how terrible things are, etc.

So they’re ripe for the taking when someone comes along, tells them that the promises they heard from others are trash, that this new person knows who or what is really to blame, and luckily. It’s a group that’s easy to scapegoat and ‘other’.