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[–] bampop@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I’m not a fan of optimism. Optimism and pessimism are both a form of vulgar fatalism — the belief that things are going to get better or worse irrespective of what we do. If I believed that, I wouldn’t get out of bed.

But I believe very much in hope. And hope is the belief that if you materially improve your circumstances, you will gain a new vantage point from which you will see things that you couldn’t see before.

https://lemmy.world/post/44108195/22599016

As bad as the USA has become, it's not a new thing but rather the culmination of decades of empire building, corruption and internal decay that it seems many of its people have been numb to, having been raised on optimistic nationalist propaganda all their lives. Optimistic complacency is not going to fix that, but hopeful action might. The USA is at a place where it must, and will, undergo significant change, for better or worse. The way I see it, it could go either way, but to be complacent and fail to take whatever action you can, is to concede defeat.