I agree that this is headed in a bad direction. I personally don’t know how to “speak out” on this issue either. People have very steadfast positions on all of this that are baked into their identity. There is little to gain in engaging in discourse because everyone will agree with the basics until things get more specific and then it is the typical orientalism that starts flowing, or a hyper-moralized geopolitics. One can of worms after another gets opened and there is simply no way to contain the chaos especially when people are basically shouting over each other.

And even if it was easy to show people the situation and how marxism can be used to understand it and move forward, rhetoric can only do so much. Self awareness doesnt guarantee anything and politcal rhetoric is changing faster than people can catch on to which gives capital a massive advantage. The police state still exists and unfortunately the empire isnt going to crumble to peices in a glorious instant but could potentially persist long enough to totally sink humanity. The Roman empire declined for like a thousand years.

Not to be a doomer, the solutions exist imo, it’s just really tough to trudge through political conversations regardless of what environment I am in. We are living in trying times where all forms of understanding the world are put to the test, making dogmas and platitudes especially toothless.