I’m French. Do I have to say more?

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.

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.

Local government is somewhat contentious, but it seems like it’s moving in the right direction.

National government does not.

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.

City and state are pretty good, but the national is a sewage plant fire

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.

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.

Local (won’t be saying where), I never really leave the area, and neither does my producer. Decent area to be in if things go bad.

As for the country itself… yeah, it’s completely in a state of civil war, spearheaded by Rome (as with all the countries that are toast). Christofascism and Judeofascism are on the rise, and the whole point of it is to get people obeying the Pope (taking the Mark of the Beast on the right hand) at least, if not revere him (MOTB on the forehead).

I am happy to say….What government?

The Netherlands…we’ll be voting soon again.

Local is not terrible. They do a decent job. We have decent schools and decent roads. The county police aren’t super terrible. Property taxes aren’t insane like they are in most of the country. State a bit worse. They seem pretty corrupt. They levied a gas tax on us so they could hire tons of new state troopers, something the majority of people in my state do not want, and absolutely were not okay with, because we are already very poor, both the gas tax and the state troopers writing tickets. I think most people in my state see this as pure greed from the nanny state people and a scheme to extort money from the poor. Our state also completely sells us out to the evil federal government constantly unless it’s state rights to own slaves or ruin trans people something. The national government. I hate it honestly, I hate both the Republican and Democratic party. I like the Democrats more but they are both extremely corrupt and they always pass laws that screw the people and they ruin our currency and let criminal corporations get away with just about anything. They also spy on us and our children.

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

country = we are fucked (USA)

City is lead by a bunch of idiots. Maybe one person who has any idea of how to lead and balance things.

State isn’t too bad. Needs some serious work. But over all not bad.

Federal level (national level) … I’m in the US so yeah I’ve lost all faith in them.

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.