Interesting points here.
I can take on board ldopas's points regarding Putin and Russia: certainly not a place I have any intention of going to - apparently I'm mentally defective and not fit to drive a car - and I'm most certainly not ignorant as to the foreign policy stances they take around the globe. However it's only fairly recently (in historical terms) that the Iron Curtain came down and although the fallout from that continues to shake down we're a long way from from those times.
Whereas with America and Trump it's such a big change from what we've been used to it feels far more shocking and unreal: although for what it's worth I think it's the natural culmination of neoliberalism - a businessman in charge of the white house. One of the long term "stabilities" in the world has taken a big unknown tangent and many many people do not think it's good.
Pol makes an excellent point vis-a-vis the tiny cogs in a huge machine. No individual action can change the world all that can be done is use your voice where you feel you need to. If we were to try and change every single thing that's wrong with the world we'd soon be left exhausted and battered. One of the things I've noticed over the last few years (and i'm not directing this to anyone here - it's a general point) is that it's become very common place to respond to an argument with "yes but what about....." I fail to see how highlighting one issue in response to another is an argument. After all a "wrong" does not become a "right" just because of the existence of another "wrong".
Still, at least we get to see that haircut regularly
