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CrispyQ

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2. Democracy will just get harder to hold onto as climate chaos gets worse.

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2026, 01:06 PM

Mar 31

We're facing mass migration & not just from other countries, but from our own states. How will Northerners deal with the Southwestern invasion when they run out of water? I'm sure it's already started. Hard times usually lack much compassion & empathy & our culture, especially, doesn't cultivate those attributes.

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Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, with U.S. Decline "Unprecedented" [View all] G_j Mar 31 OP

Global Neoliberalism created a vacuum leftstreet Mar 31 #1

Democracy will just get harder to hold onto as climate chaos gets worse. CrispyQ Mar 31 #2