re: #12 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I do not see it that extremely, but I fear that news has to continue getting worse before it can even start to get a little bit better.

And I fear that the level of political discourse and media coverage has declined to the point that they will not help us out of this mess.

I see things getting worse.

I just can’t see things ever getting better, for the exact reason you state at the end. There’s just no mechanisms we have left, not with the fucking absurd leeway Trump has gotten and the clear indicators through each and every fucking one of his picks that this administration plans to tear down every single fucking institution we have and build gold statues to the glory of Trump and the GOP on their ruins.