Well, here in Spain it goes somewhat better as in Germany, because our Gov is way more prepared and intelligent as the German "Ampel", it's red-red, our "FDP" Ciudadanos, since years is out of the parliament.
2024 was kind of a break. It wasn't that bad (comparatively), a few things happened that brought us hope, a lot of things happened that suggest things are going to get much worse
Imagine the jump scare as they decided to look behind themselves... Why? Because the monsters come not from behind that door, the monsters come from behind that people. A haunting, haunted past, whose curse follows the arrow of unstoppable time, as the new year comes with all the consequences from the past years. Creepy new year.
Cool. Reminded me of a quote by Karl Marx that I saw referenced in lemmy. Searched for it:
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like an nightmare on the brains of the living.