America is broken in many ways, many people are broken, like always this crazy era will pass.

[fightforfreedom]

In time the younger generations will come to power and usher in a new era, most likely a better era. That's how it has always worked.

Our democracy is stronger than a lot people think it is.

One day no one will be talking about the Trump voters. They will fade off into an infamous history. One day the Republican Party will moderate or die.

Can you imagine if there was a DU during the civil war. Can you imagine the posts we would all be reading.

I am as guilty as anyone getting depressed, hopeless, about these times. I always look towards history and it gives me a better perspective, a more realistic view of what is happening. How hopeful they future can be.

I consider history as my best teacher.

[PortTack]

1. Thank you for the positive and historically correct post! Here's to GenZ

[Buckeyeblue]

2. I don't disagree but how dark does it have to get before things turn?

The last 5-6 years have been tough on the country. And on a lot of people. Unless we see a strong midterm reaction against Roe I think things will get much darker for the country. And people will suffer unnecessarily because of that.

[madaboutharry]

3. You are right.

This is a time. And there will be another time. These terrible people who brought us to this day will one day be dead and gone. And hopefully, when the young in this country grow into adulthood and take power, the compassionate and good people will outnumber those who want the world to regress to the Middle Ages.

[Phoenix61]

4. They'll talk about Trump the same way they talk about Clackers.

WTAF were they thinking?

[SoCalDavidS]

5. You Might Be The Most Optimistic Person On DU

I wish I could live in the country of which you speak.

[Freddie]

6. I'm 65

I’m not going to live long enough to see this better America. Hope my grandchildren can.

[Towlie]

7. "Cheer up, things could be worse." So instead of doing something I cheered up, and things got worse.

 
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[happy feet]

8. I disagree. Eras don't just pass

There are those who continually fight for what is right for 'all' and the dispossesed often at their own work/family/life expense to get us through and out of the Era. Saying Eras pass is passive acceptance for "good people" to do nothing while others get hurt and even die while "good people" sit on the sideline waiting for the Era to just 'pass'.

[Chainfire]

9. There is an event horizon, that once crossed, is inescapable and leads to total destruction.

We are circling it and if we don't change our direction and momentum we may be doomed. We don't have time for some other generation to save us from ourselves.

[roamer65]

10. At this point, I just hope the breakup is peaceful.

[agingdem]

11. I think a lot of this shit had to happen..sort of

1. if not for the pandemic Trump would have been re-elected..

2. January 6 insurrection exposed the attempted coup, Trump, his enablers, and the fragility of our republic..

3. overturning Roe v Wade brought home "elections have consequences"..

If six morally twisted assholes declare guns have rights but women do not, and if the prospect of Trump in the White House doesn't enrage and unite us, and stampede us to polls en masse then nothing will....

[JanMichael]

12. I cannot imagine DU during the Civil War. No I can. It would be ugly.

[Deminpenn]

13. Agree with you

Read any history of the 1920s and it's very similar to today.

For those of us who came of age in the mid-to late 60s, there was plenty of upheaval and lots of Americans thought the country was coming apart at the seams.

[Ron Green]

14. Sorry, but this time it's for real, I think.

Empires come and go, good and bad leaders take turns, freedom movements rise and fall.

But what’s happening to our only home the earth, and to its delicate balance of conditions in which humans can live - that’s not cyclical, that’s going one way. And even on a site like DU it’s mostly ignored, in favor of shinier things.

[BannonsLiver]

15. There's no real justification for this kind of blind optimism but hey, whatever gets folks through.