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Is it sustainable? Three days ago:
Today employees of the #UniversityofAmsterdam #UvA are on #strike to protest against the budget cuts for education that are pushed by our far right government.
https://social.edu.nl/users/MishaVelthuis/statuses/114176955041642315
In some theoretical future history book, there is a whole section of one chapter devoted to how the collapse of the US was that calamitous event that in the end ushered in a new age, much more civilized and laid on more solid foundations than the capitalist wasteland that had defined the previous 100-150 years or so.
Everyone stopped waiting for someone else to solve climate change. Everyone stopped assuming someone else would see to their country’s geopolitical security. Around the world, citizens of the comfortable countries realized they had to seize the reins of their own governments, or a tsunami of social-media slop and campaign contributions would seize it away from them. And they looked at the wreckage between the Atlantic and Pacific and said, Jesus Christ, fuck no, that’s not happening here. And then they got to work. Enabled by a glut of highly qualified people fleeing from the horror and into any role that could be created for them in science and public policy. And, it fucking worked, and things finally started going in the right direction in a sustained fashion.
There are other outcomes, of course. That is one of a few different possibilities.