Federal: Canadian government (Liberal minority) is okay, they try to do awful bullshit but they’re also good on social issues and are pushing through high-speed rail. Conflicted, but I’m okay with it.

Provincial: abysmal dogshit. Completely dropping the ball on the housing crisis, constantly burning billions on random bs and then cutting funding to actually good stuff like schools. The ruling party (CAQ) is projected to get 0 seats on the next election though, down from an absolute majority.

City: Super duper based, /c/fuckcars would be proud.

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.

Nation, US: has gotten so ridiculously bad

State: Florida, not as bad as media would have it but pretty damn bad.

City: cool. Laid back cops. Ok all round, they try. But our city DA was removed by our asshole governor, for de-prioritizing culture war bullshit.

Country: USA, do I really have to say?

State: Texas, double down on above

City: I’m in a pretty privileged position where this level doesn’t affect me much.

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.

I’m French. Do I have to say more?

city, and state = Fine and acceptable. Not any dramatic shift from the last 30 years.

country = we are fucked (USA)

Love my state and city. Minnesota rules.

Federal government can get fucked.

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.

I am happy to say….What government?

The Netherlands…we’ll be voting soon again.

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.

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.

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.

Our leader is a lying business man, told a ton of bullshit during the campaign. I’m talking about Mark Carney of Canada. The Liberal party has shifted so far to the right, it’s hard to tell the Liberals and Conservatives apart. The Liberals also want to take away our Charter (our version of the USA Constitution) protected rights to privacy.

We have a bit of a power struggle in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the Provincial leader Tim Houston wanting to overrule municipal decisions. If Houston is bored, we have a health care and housing crisis that will give Houston plenty of work.