re: #46 Charles Johnson

Look how bad things have gotten with less than a year of Trump in office. Congress is about to pass a bill that will basically wreck the American economy, to put huge amounts of money in the pockets of the super-rich. I don’t think it’s fatalistic to think another year of this degradation and plundering will be nearly impossible to reverse - it’s realistic.

And as the pressure increases on Trump, the chances that he’ll do something really terrible, like start a war or launch nuclear weapons at North Korea, get even greater.

Sorry, I just don’t see much to be optimistic about right now, and I don’t have much hope that our institutions are strong enough to hold up against this authoritarian onslaught, or Trump would never have been elected in the first place.

Well crap. This bums me out. No, in a way it pisses me off.

A bunch of people have already stopped posting much because of the no hope crowd.

With Charles posting this, no hope may become the theme around here.

Fuck that.

I guess I’m going to have to join them. I’m a hopeful person. This may no longer be the site for that…and for me.

Yeah, I’m crushed. Bigly.