Man, I can’t wait to get home next month. Same games just way less of them. When we get shortages it’s because of real crisis. When eggs were dear, it as because they killed something like 30 million birds because of Newcastle. Mexico is the largest consumer of eggs in the world, so I am told.
Gas is never out because Mexico is the #8 producer of petroleum in the world and they feed their pumps first. Most I’ve seen gas prices fluctuate in 9 years is maybe .50 usd.
When things are scarce, they are actually scarce. They don’t make up shit like “due to COVID” or “coin shortage”.
I don’t mention this because Mexico is a better country, but to illustrate a couple of things.
The government is corrupt. No one disputes that. But the corruption is so much more understood by the citizenry that they have learned to accept it. Very few protest but everyone complains.
The government is a bit oppressive, but they don’t fuck with you on the most minute level like the USA does. Think Game Wardens, cops ticketing “failure to signal lane change” or more ludicously “signalling too early”.
Think of how much we are fucked with in America. It seems every aspect of our lives are regulated and it’s STILL not enough. Lawmakers are tightening the noose daily.
Americans love to talk about the right to bear arms. We have that in Mexico too. In fact Mexico is one of three countries in the world where the right to bear arms is IN the constitution. Sure, it’s restricted and they make it a hassle to buy one but it can be done. In fact, I am going to make it a point to go buy one next year.
For some reason, some people in America rally to LOSE rights every day. “There should be a law…” “They should make _____ illegal…”
People talk about revolution and others scoff but I guess the latter forget how there came to be a United States of America.
The thing I always hear is “That was 200 years ago”. Guess what Yankee, 200 years is pretty recent history.
I was in Sweden doing a thing and their military guys showed me weapons casually pointed at Denmark. I asked why? “Those fuckers attacked us 400 years ago. We don’t forget.”
When I lived in Scotland a girl I dated lived at a school, in a castle/home that was built 100 years before Cristopher Columbus was born! Think about that.
All these threads about revolution aren’t just crazy talk. Maybe a bit of bravado but not altogether impossible.