The West: started with Jesus as figurehead, ending with Satan (yes, we *are* the bad guys. We have been for decades. We never asked for this but it may take our collective attention to end it).
Lest we forget those defence force people whose wild precious lives have been lost over the past half century to useless "wars". Invasions fought to shore up power for the billionaire class that long ago took away our flourishing & which funds this endless imperialism no matter which hollowed-out long-dead political party is in office giving an illusion of choice as US citizens are pitted against each other by the most sophisticated and large intelligence outfit in human history) .
The US military is the largest pollutor in the world. In return for all that pollution the world receives murdered foreign citizens, including mothers and children; financial sanctions to starve countries out that refuse to bow to the capitalist system; difficult-to-pay loans in return for forced export of food and other goods that are required in-country.
It shouldn't be so surprising that us westerners are now feeling the authoritarian reality of what the system has been for my entire life.
Julian Assange told us how the US military behaves. In return he is locked up in Belmarsh Prison. David McBride did the same. He is soon facing an invisible court hearing & life in prison. Australia is as corrupt as you could expect after being America's kowtowing bitch since 1975, when the government my people elected was ousted by the CIA, the MI5, with the queen's consent.
This empire is crumbling. It cant crumble soon enough. Before that, we can expect the propaganda we've all been subjected to our entire lives to continue. We can also expect attempts to ramp-up even more authoritarianism than we've already experienced.
Be nice if we started pushing back. Unsurprising it's roosting home now though, really.
Here's to some day having control of our own societies & lives. We have no idea how much we are missing each other (though our insane nervous systems sure do. We are built for community not for divide & conquer isolation).