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It's interesting. It was pretty clear to me as a child, years ago, that this nation was fucked.
It had, and has, potential, but is driving in the wrong direction, with blinders on.
But I think it's a perspective thing.
Some people just don't see it, cause they are doing fine in their fishbowls.
Others have a twisted perspective and can't tell what's real and what's not--even confuse what's right in front of them, or biting them in the ass.
There are people that see it, sure. And people who fight against it. But it's a lot and they are few. So even with huge wins here or there the overall trajectory remains the same.
It's like the doomsday clock: it's 5 second to midnight, maybe tomorrow it'll move back to 10 seconds, but it's unlikely to ever move back a minute, or an hour, or a day.
And I'm an optimist.
You've largely described my perception growing up; my own experience had a twist: I had a hard time reconciling how many others didn't see the same cracks, and how things didn't fall apart (sooner). I was beginning to accept the idea that maybe it wasn't so bad, as that is what I was told over and over. Yet here we are.