3 ms·

Is this the end of American optimism?

• quietthrow 6y ago
  Yes. Anybody thinking otherwise is delusional. Highly recommend reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35356384-how-democracies-die https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35356384-how-democracies... If nothing read chapters 7 and 8.
  • anarbadalov 6y ago
    that's been in my queue since it came out a couple of years ago, but watching democracy die has been traumatic enough.
• deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
• Nasrudith 6y ago
  Can something end when it has never existed? There were outcasts dying in despair in all ages whether by exposure, alcoholism, or another cause and plenty living in despair that society considers it actively rude to bring up "erased" during such "optimism". During the Cold War there was an anxiety that the world would end in thermonuclear fire.
• greggeter 6y ago
  Only if you're a pessimist. Stop watching the news, get off social media, and a person gets pretty optimistic.
• ThrowMeAwayOkay 6y ago
  “...are the good times really over?” Merle Haggard says No.