Local (your town / city / state or whatever you call them in your country)
National (the country)
I only moved recently so I don’t know too much but… No rating for both
No local government for almost a year and a half now. Allegedly there is a left-wing Islamic party and a left-wing socialist party that have severe difficulties with forming coalitions
Federal government coalition is led by a right-wing party with the prime minister being an asshole so I don’t exactly like it… But things are running & far-right wasn’t in the coalition, so I guess I can’t complain
Can’t say much about the local government. Yes, city council votes went well enough, but there will be a deciding election in ten days, so I don’t know yet who will be mayor.
State and federal government cares more for the companies and the rich instead for the people, and still wonder why people turn to right-wingers who promise to fix that. I’m not that stupid, they would only make the graft worse.
In the U.S., the federal government is obviously bad, but I’m honestly more concerned about the voting populace that elected it. They got so desperate and fed up with both parties they voted for the strong man that promised them he could rewind time, and apparently didn’t have the basic level of empathy and psychological wherewithal to see him for what he is: a pathologically narcissistic conman.
The Trump administration is a problem, but it’s not the problem. The problem is that both Republicans and Democrats are so dislikable as political parties that enough people are so fed up with them that they’ll vote for someone like Trump instead. That’s just really sad.
City: Sucks. Huge city of over 100k people; they act like it’s a rural suburb of less than 10k so everything is basically fucked by the number of people using things (roads, public services, etc) that are severely underfunded or underscaled.
State: All things considered, it’s alright. It’s not great, but it could be so, so much worse.
Country: Shit is absolutely cooked.
city, and state = Fine and acceptable. Not any dramatic shift from the last 30 years.
country = we are fucked (USA)
As far as I can tell the USA, Britain,
Germany, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, Australia and China are fucked. Fascism, nationalism, corporate capitalism, segregation, genocide, history erasure, political extremism and regression… Looking pretty fucking bleak. I’d include Palestine but it was formatted by Britain and replaced with Israel, and it doesn’t technically exist like it used to.Germany is totally fucked.
You forgot Sweden, we are exceptionally fucked…
I’m glad you didn’t mention Canada but I’m not feeling entirely safe here either
They just forgot. Canada isn’t any less at risk than the rest… probably more-so due to proximity to Americas mass mental illness.
Yeah, I have faith in the people but the leadership definitely puts Canada in the same gross boat as the others…
Denmark?
Germany?
How?
I was wrong about Germany, the main issue over there is the AfD party, but it seems the public are vehemently opposed to them. Denmark, however, is the current presidential leader of the EU, and is speedrunning Chat Control before their term ends. Normally these kinds of votes must be unanimous, but it wasn’t – yet Denmark is continuing to implement it.
You weren’t wrong about Germany.
I am happy to say….What government?
The Netherlands…we’ll be voting soon again.
Ah, is it that country I heard about where the parliament keep dismissing the cabinet / no confidence votes?
That’s Belgium.
Canada:
A disappointment in some ways based on what we were promised during the campaign and especially in his dealings with the fascists to our south. Not an absolute catastrophe (despite what Maple MAGA cries on every social network), but definitely not focused on the little guy like they said they would be.
To be honest, I feel kind of tricked a little bit. We had a legitimately good third party that usually held the balance of power (NDP) and could use their votes to cooperate with the ruling Liberals to get some legitimately good things done. (You support 10 dollar a day daycare or we won’t use our votes to help you…that kind of thing). But during the last election, there was so much fear mongering about the Conservatives that we were essentially convinced that we needed to sacrifice the NDP in order to avoid splitting the vote. So now we have a party that can basically do whatever they want for the most part.
Even if it is the far far better of the two parties that has that power, the lack of a third party check and balance is bothersome.
but…still far far far preferable to Pierre Poppinfresh and his MAGA-lite cultists.
Isn’t our red regime still a minority by, like, one?
And we don’t pick for perfection; we pick to get the best of who can win, and that’s not orange today.
There is no situation so bad that Peter Polyestre can’t make it worse.
Netherlands:
Country: an utter clusterfuck. After a fifteen year neoliberal government, the far right have taken over. Whereas the neoliberals broke lots of things, under the facsists, our country satgnated and it will probably take decades for us to recover. We are fucked. Sideways. With a chainsaw. Province: As far as I can tell, they try to do their best despite being fucked over by said far right. City: Right-wing mayor who actually appears do be doing a somewhat decent job. However, whenever he tries to act as a human being in a national or international context, he is being cut short by his party members.
The outlook is not good.
Well, shit. I had it in mind to try to move there one of these days.
Local government is mid, I’m going to give them a solid C tier. State government is… probably B tier. Federal government… F? Possibly G or even H tier? Depending on how much of a tier list purist you are.
Southwest New Hampshire, USA
Local: Not bad. Mostly moderate liberals who do work to improve to the conditions in the city. Fencesit too much for their own good sometimes when it comes to taking a stand on something.
State: Fucking awful. Completely full of MAGA dipshits passing anti-trans laws and doing nothing but gutting budgets (a city nearby me had to take out a private loan to fund their school system this year) and ignoring the huge problems we have (opiate abuse, housing, and mental healthcare).
Federal:
Germany: Merz. My Little Nazi. Lindner and Merz worked together to discredit the Greens and it worked. The AfD keeps winning local elections.
Local is weird. AfD popular even though the area literally depends on French customers for income.
Country is fucked.
I’m French. Do I have to say more?
Current Country: USA. Absolutely fucked.
Current State and City: Eh, just the average bullshit, nothing bad as the federal
Former Country: PRC. Absolutely fucked x2. Except there wouldn’t even be a “No Kings” type of widespread protest. Corruption everywhere. There is no “FDA” (or if there is, they never do anything about food safety), there is no “FTC”, there is no “FDIC”, there is no laws protecting consumers like if some fraudster stole money from your bank, oh well, (at least bank in the US might help you). No Medical privacy laws. And no “ADA” equivalent. No independent unions (there is supposedly a government controlled one that does jack shit), very lax worker safety regulations, and if your employer doesn’t pay you, good luck, there’s no government agency that’ll help you. For a country that obsess about control regulation, there sure is a lack of regulation 🤔.
Seems like the EU is the final beacon of actual freedom and prosperity, but unfortunately, I probably don’t qualify to immigrate to.
Chicago City Gov’t: Moderately unhappy in general, unhappy with my Alderman specifically.
Illinois State Gov’t: Very happy. Pritzker is amazing and I hope he doesn’t run for president because we need him here for a few more years to keep cleaning up these messes. I’m very unhappy with my State Representative specifically, but he runs unopposed in both primary and general so my options are limited. And by “unopposed” I mean he’s the stepson of my Alderman, the Alderman whose wife held the State Rep seat previously, and it’s a whole nepotism / Machine thing.
US Federal Gov’t: Very unhappy. You’ve read the news, you know why.
Love my state and city. Minnesota rules.
Federal government can get fucked.
