I can tell you this, as a lifelong USian who has only been out of the country 2x (Scotland, and Canada)-- every time I see someone suffering on the news-- someone like, in Palestine, or the like-- I feel very bad for them but I also notice how they have family and friends surrounding them weeping with them. I am jealous of them for that. That’s how isolated I am here as a leftist; no friends/family that I can even talk to here in the deep south. Not a single person I have met in this entire city I can talk to except on discord; and they can’t even come to town to meet (too poor to afford a car). Talk about isolation, it’s horrible. I am too poor to just move somewhere where I might find like minds and make community. I keep thinking about going backpacking across the US but I haven’t got the courage up yet. I’m building up my fitness and saving up for camping gear, it’s my last chance at finding someone somewhere I feel. Even when I lived in San Fran, Chicago, NYC etc the story was the same. Nothing but Liberals in the spaces I frequented. During the BLM protests I was participating in my ex (this is why she’s my ex) said “I dont mind you going to those protests but DON’T BRING ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE HOME WITH YOU” – this from a polish Jew from Argentina whose mom (a holocaust survivor) we’d just buried. Fuck me but it’s lonely out here as an anarcho-communist