LIGHT SWITCH
Prompt - Light Switch : Write about coming out of the dark and seeing the light.
The USA is emerging into the light, with the Biden presidency replacing the worst and most corrupt US regime in history. Another four years of that darkness could have proved fatal to US democracy, as the orange manbaby's attempts to resist a democratic result showed. Biden might not be a strong light - he's no Bernie - but Harris looks promising and America should have brighter future than seemed the case a year ago.
But the UK? The darkness here is getting deeper and, unlike the USA, there is no robust constitution that resists the right wing's predations. Even Weimar had more protections. Brexshit can be seen as damaging for the economic implications, but it's human rights that are most worrying aspect. An immigration policy that's reminiscent of the National Front in the seventies. Privatisation proposals that will do even more damage to public services than the dire Thatcher era achieved. And hard worn employment, diversity and basic human rights under threat. A Labour opposition that looks inadequate for the job, and a right wing media that revels in the restrictions taking place, giving them even more freedom to lie.
Scotland has a glimpse of what the end of the tunnel could look like. We can get out of this shitshow, but it will need to be done soon, before the hard right coup taking place down south places even greater obstacles in our way. It will be as hard as in 2014, for project Fear will be in full swing as soon as any referendum campaign kicks off. Countering unionist lies will be a hard battle. But the goal is so worth it, a chance to create a Scotland that at some point in the future will look to be as successful as the likes of Denmark and Finland - regularly assessed to be among the happiest countries in the world. And what other measurement could shed more light than that?
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