I have two options; I believe that no matter how bad it is now the world can improve (and while there's been many setbacks the evidence does overwhelmingly support that idea in the long term) or I can be crushed under the world being lost and nothing can be done to save it.
And I refuse the latter.
Make no mistake, I'm not an optimist. I don't believe this is the best world that could be. But I do believe it can be better.
The USA can recover its credibility. It's just not going to be easy. And, perhaps, I will lose that incessant feeling that I've had since my teens that the USA is like a middle class family desperately trying to pretend it's an upper class one without understanding a thing about being classy.
But Trump is a load that the USA will be carrying for decades in the future, and future presidents (Republican especially) will be viewed with great suspicion by other nations.
And I refuse the latter.
Make no mistake, I'm not an optimist. I don't believe this is the best world that could be. But I do believe it can be better.
The USA can recover its credibility. It's just not going to be easy. And, perhaps, I will lose that incessant feeling that I've had since my teens that the USA is like a middle class family desperately trying to pretend it's an upper class one without understanding a thing about being classy.
But Trump is a load that the USA will be carrying for decades in the future, and future presidents (Republican especially) will be viewed with great suspicion by other nations.