they just show up and everyone’s gotta be pretend they’re welcome.
US here, do you? I mean I know your politicians might, but I figure the populace can do a good job showing how "welcome" they are... (seriously, if you somehow chuck them off the island without a boat I'll be cheering for you.)
Same from Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma...
Yet they think they understand how the world works better than anyone.
If you've read Orwell, then you know we have.
There's a weird moment where it's "Fuck, here we go aga... wait... it's not our fault this time?"
I mean... there's a good side. We don't have the manufacturing for heavy equipment and we're pissing off the world so it might take a couple years before we actually have the heavy equipment to strip mine our national parks.
I live in a red state. We have a method of voting individual bills into our constitution as a majority process.
We have voted in a reform to get big money out of our politics. The Republican majority in the state forced another vote with the most obfuscated language to get the state to overturn it. We have voted time and time again against Right to Work which is an anti-union bill. The Republicans have constantly tried to get it to happen. St Louis managed to get its police out from under State control, leaving Kansas City the only state in the nation with the state controlling the cities police... until the Republican ran state forced St. Louis back under its control.
We voted in a higher minimum wage and guarantees for sick leave. We also voted in protections for abortions overturning the harshest ban in the state. These were overwhelming majorities. We as a state also overwhelmingly voted Republicans in, who have just overturned the min wage and sick leave bill, and are trying to figure out how to overturn the abortion protections.
So if we had a COMPLETELY free and fair election. I guarantee you, at least the portion of the country I'm in, would still vote for anything with an (R) next to their name.
and you’re lucky to have the NPS to make all of it so accessible.
Give it a couple years...
I will not be going back there until shit calms down.
Don't expect it for a long time. You talk about the Erasmus to teach people they're just like everyone else to prevent an internal war.
Here in the states, I honest to god cannot see how our two sides can come to a peaceful resolution and that terrifies me.
Instead, the anger will be pointed at minorities.
For a time. How long until "Democrats" are the ones that are taking their jobs and food.
And I don't mean the politicians.
I'm going to say doubt on there actually being an H-1B crackdown...
But if Trump were to decide to do one, monkeys and typewriters because that's something I'd actually support.
I'm waiting to see how he'd fuck it up and make it worse though.