Is this the end of American optimism?

https://www.vox.com/21534608/2020-election-coronavirus-optimism-happiness

by anarbadalov • 6 years ago

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quietthrow• 6 years ago

Yes.

Anybody thinking otherwise is delusional.

Highly recommend reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35356384-how-democracies...

If nothing read chapters 7 and 8.

anarbadalov• 6 years ago

that's been in my queue since it came out a couple of years ago, but watching democracy die has been traumatic enough.

Nasrudith• 6 years 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.

ThrowMeAwayOkay• 6 years ago

“...are the good times really over?” Merle Haggard says No.

Is this the end of American optimism?

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