This morning Starrwulfe wrote : "The enshittification of my country is depressing and tiring." Agreed. I keep trying to pull back, big picture, long period for context and perspective. So many things continue to go the wrong way. I lost faith in the legistlative process/system 30 years ago at which point I began to realize that the electoral process/system was equally broken. I still had hope though that the people of the country would step up to the challenge of figuring out the problems. In the past 15 years it seems increasingly clear that that will not happen. We call ourselves the United Stat... beardystarstuff.net

@Denny Similar here in the UK, of course. The UK Labour Party has deliberately moved to the right to win the ruling Conservative Party votes in the upcoming General Election. The whole political spectrum has moved so far to the right over the past forty years (and especially it seems in the last fifteen) that the UK Left is now more right wing than Margaret Thatcher!

I work from home, but when I have to go to the office, I have to clamber over homeless people and their beds to get in. Yet in our economically deprived and overcrowded town, there are tens of thousands of new homes being built, none affordable to local people, and many of which remain empty once sold to "investors" (money launderers?) in the Gulf states and China. The developers of these new homes reward themselves with annual dividends of tens of millions of pounds, the company annual profits are half a billion or more. They have a "compulsory volunteering" scheme for their staff who raise tens of thousands on sponsored activities to give to the local homeless charity... based out of the same building where my office is.

The official police advice is "don't help the homeless people, walk on by", while they aggressively move them on (in some cases even trashing their possessions).

@davidmarsden @denny It's the same situation here in Australia. We are on the same trajectory. A few years behind perhaps but heading in the same direction at an alarming rate. Australia seems to love being the lap dogs, trailing behind global powers, colonised by Britain then gladly dominated by the US. The two primary political parties have lost their distinctions and have been referred to as 'two cheeks of the same a....hole' . Politicians now use their positions to make contacts in global corporations for employment after their term in office. The misconception we generally have is that politicians are there to serve the people. That's clearly not the case they are there to serve the global elites (imo). Governments have been bought out by corporations, they are puppets of the global elites.