Political Memes

I have two modes, really.

1. "Things are bad, but they will get better." Looking at the past, things were immeasurably worse. That they're still incredibly dogshit now is not a condemnation of our trajectory for all eternity (though I do suspect after this last election, there will need to be a tumultuous 'correction', civil rights or civil war style, to return to even the meagre rate of improvement we had before). 2025 is not 1925, and certainly not 1825 or 1025. Technological advancement aside, we have made incredible gains in the history of human civilization, and there's no reason that it should stop now, despite the seeming power of the elites. Relatively speaking, we are immensely educated and powerful compared to past generations of the working class. Our tools of communication are far further removed from elite control - though that should be interpreted with a touch of 'damnation by faint praise'. We may feel helpless and hopeless, but they are only feelings - feelings always pass, rightly or wrongly; and reality always asserts itself when the two collide.

2. "Holy fuck, what do you mean that by the time I'm in my 90s things might be slightly better? Assuming there isn't a half-century detour that makes things worse first, Reconstruction style??? And it's all reliant on the dipshits I meet in day-to-day life??? I'm either shooting myself or shooting up, fuck this"