proved this OP wrong. How quickly anxiety can cause getting lost in a moment without understanding.
We keep seeing these posts, and agreements to them. I think they come from inability to understand ourselves and define what makes us different from those who have lost their moral way, perhaps in many cases never one, just had less disastrous leaders.
Here's a book I read because Obama recommended it.
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
https://www.amazon.com/Enlightenment-Now-Science-Humanism-Progress/dp/0525427570/ref=sr_1_2_twi_har_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1543931744&sr=1-2&keywords=enlightenment+now+by+steven+pinker
It gives a big-context picture of the world and of our place in it, what we believe in and why, and of those who do not. It's about why and how we keep progressing. It's not the one true book of knowledge, but is a wonderful antidote to the bizarrely twisted, dystopian view of the world that news reports and phony intellectuals whose careers require ignoring reality give us.
No liberal or progressive conservative here could read it and still feel politically lost, limited to taking one side of minor political squabbles "because," unable to explain even to himself what he believes in large political terms and why, or why he's not really just less worse than those others. There are huge differences between descendants of the Enlightenment and throwbacks to the dark ages. And we do progress.
“As we care about more of humanity, we’re apt to mistake the harms around us for signs of how low the world has sunk rather than how high our standards have risen.” ― Steven Pinker
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