It feels as if the golden age of social democracy has passed, and what awaits is only further twilighting of decency
I never got to live in the golden era of socdem governments, during my entire life it has been a gradual dismantlement of it, slowly but surely. You know you are living on borrowed time because one day it will be entirely gone, this system our predecessors got to enjoy. The rich (usually old wrinkly bastards) want to pull up their ladders and leave the rest in the dust. The youth are dispossessed and have no future prospects and face the odd situation of being outnumbered by the old, which is a reverse of what has been a constant for millenia. They fall into apathy, for what is there to do? It is only going to get worse. You might raise some complaints in the newspaper but it's not like anything will come out of it, the fat politicians will ignore it anyway.
Where did the revolutionary zeal go? The shared solidarity and love for your people and human decency? Modern social democracy has gotten so meek and in bed with neoliberalism, selling out the people and the state to capital while the unions are only interested in harm reduction but not actual improvement (still better to harm reduce than nothing of course). Everything has become a managed decline, a race to the bottom.
I'm tired. It was over before it started.