It feels like there’s less hope in the world lately. Politics is nastier than it’s been in decades. European wars are back, and in the rest of the world many of them never left. We’ve changed the climate in ways we won’t even know about for years. People with fewer resources are finding it harder to get by. More people here in the supposedly wealthiest country in the world have no homes, not enough food, and of course we’ve managed to put together the worst health care system in the world. Opinions that are moderate are regularly denounced as “radical,” and “radical” is assumed to be unthinkably bad. Millions of people in the US seem to believe things they’re told without any evidence, even though there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary easily available. In a two-party political system, one of them seems to have decided the system itself — voting — doesn’t work any more.
Helpfully Hoping
Helpfully Hoping
Helpfully Hoping
It feels like there’s less hope in the world lately. Politics is nastier than it’s been in decades. European wars are back, and in the rest of the world many of them never left. We’ve changed the climate in ways we won’t even know about for years. People with fewer resources are finding it harder to get by. More people here in the supposedly wealthiest country in the world have no homes, not enough food, and of course we’ve managed to put together the worst health care system in the world. Opinions that are moderate are regularly denounced as “radical,” and “radical” is assumed to be unthinkably bad. Millions of people in the US seem to believe things they’re told without any evidence, even though there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary easily available. In a two-party political system, one of them seems to have decided the system itself — voting — doesn’t work any more.