I think the trickiest thing to communicate to people in the Anglosphere at the moment, as an Eastern European, is not how *bad* things are but how quickly these bad things can change. I see a bunch of people saying that it will take multiple decades to fix the atrocities, especially the transphobic ones, that the Supreme Court has inflicted on us and... it will not. The cat's out of the bag. People *know what freedom and a good society look like*. They will not forget easily.
Replying to @iris_meredith@mastodon.social
@iris_meredith Just watching Mamani in NYC, I know we can fix 60 percent of this stuff in the first ten months, and things will be doing so much better we will have the strength, energy, and will to keep going as we repair and improve things.
Replying to @pawsplay@dice.camp
@pawsplay All this is true. BUT; when people feel the emergency is over, complacency and navel-gazing comes back *very* fast. So, the worst can be fixed quickly, but the undermining of the foundations will take a long time to fix, because the urgency will be gone.
Anti-trust, food and safety, consumer rights, to name a few, they all require a large pool of conscientious bureaucrats who take pride in their work. For them to come back *will* take a long time. who@iris_meredith@mastodon.social
Replying to @hakona@im.alstadheim.no
@pawsplay P.S.: The whole edifice hangs on the legal system, which will take time to rebuild. After that, the rest can stand on a firm footing, and be rebuilt brick-by-brick.