here's a scenario that could possibly be worse than being raped:
You're a child whose mother accidentally left you in a sink of scalding hot water onto your face and body in an accident as a very young toddler, permanently disfiguring you into that of a hideously grotesque and horrifyingly warped amorphous sinewy ropey-scarred flesh demon. Your mother, stricken with irreconcilable guilt, lives a delusional fantasy parading you around on publicly televised self-help motivation talks and burn-victim awareness seminars, coddling you to soothe the immense regret, shame, resentment, and disgust she feels over the irreparable state of your unsightly ghoulish being. Simultaneously, you contracted a rare bacterial infection whilst in the operating room for your burns as an infant, which rapidly spread to your extremities, requiring the immediate amputation of all your limbs - the necrosis leaving the rest of your pickled, mutilated body resembling a writhing sack of beef jerky. Your father couldn't bear the ignominy of having a gigadisabled quadraspazzed son and left quietly, compounding your mother's demented psychosis, but not before he also took your perfectly healthy and strapping twin brother. A twin brother who you would then meet as a teenager in the school you're forced to share, assigned by the staff at his own enthusiasm to be your custodian and aide. A physical manifestation of the reality plundered from you, the better timeline narrowly missed by the cruelty of fate. To make matters worse, the twin brother is psychotic, and, tickled by the sheer hilarity of the colossal karmic imbalance represented in the flesh between you, decides to make every waking minute of your scholastic life a nightmare by forcing you, the vile pepperami-person that your scalded, charred, broken body has become, into doing all sorts of demeaning and disgraceful things at the threat of electrical and incendiary torture.

At the end of the day, the majority of the global youth are liberal. They believe in liberal values. They have progressive views on everything. They’re the most secular generation in history. They speak English, consume American media, reject the norms of the elder generations, spread all their ideals on the internet instantaneously, invent new categories of identity for themselves instead of adhering to grandiose religions and ideologies, etc. All current-day politics is based on the fact that the people in charge are aware that this generation will inherit the world and keep the mantle of global liberalism alive. That’s why they’re acting so aggressively. It’s now or never. Once Trump and his generation die, it’s game over and the world resumes its trajectory toward a global cosmopolitan oasis. Nationalism will perish, borders will be less visible, the races will mix, you know all of this already. The point is that there’s no reason to believe that the liberal West won’t outlast all these authoritarian leaders and social upheaval. Wait for the storm to subside. These are still the best countries in the world by far and everyone wants to be like us. Because when all is said and done, liberalism actually works better than anything else. It just does