That's really sad to hear as someone who looks up to his grandfather, someone in the Deep South during the Civil Rights movement as he did his little parts. I

That's really sad to hear as someone who looks up to his grandfather, someone in the Deep South during the Civil Rights movement as he did his little parts. I know pain is inevitable (and already has occured), so I'm not afraid of a little more to get the country back on a track of actual progressivism. We still have a storm to do through, so I hope we can have more of this discusion after that dust settles (and not have the community flag all efforts to have such talks in a more subtle space). But I do think 2 unprecedented events happening in real tome may shift some thinking after said storm. 1. Seeing Trump's reign and the several tepid responses will definitely radicalise America on both ends. But the response from the right over the year on the micro scale is definitely changing. I'm not exactly in a red area, but even I saw all the trump memorabilia in 2024. That's pretty much all disappeared over the 2nd half of the year. 2. Simply put, those older folk will die out. People who held the reigns for an unprecedentedly long time. I just hope Millenial did not learn this same helplessness as they (including I) had to spend their 20s or 30s navigating this hellhole of a government. And Gen Z especially can't even get a boot on the ground as the country tells them they are lazy and entitled. Saying "you will be be jobless and like it" isn't how you create learn helplessness. It may not be in 2032 or even 2036, but as long as we don't forget these feelings, we can push to something unprecedented yet again.