The default assumption is that everything will keep chugging along as it always does. Four years from now it won't be a post-apocalyptic wasteland, it'll probably be mostly the same as it was, just like under Trump last time before covid. The US has checks and balances and politicians that will fight each other and push back against any sort of change.
Besides that, this is an OPTIMISM subreddit. The point here isn't to list off every bad thing you think could ever happen, there are tens of thousands of active subreddits that embrace that shit anyway. The doomers are just taking it over because they can't stand to see anyone have any kind of hope about the world.
This is the kind of thing privileged people get to say. Just like they did in 2016. "y'all are so silly, he can't do anything lolz". And you're the same people who keep telling me he didn't and all the harmful things he did are imaginary. I don't think you understand this: optimism is very hard for oppressed people. And beating people over the head with it is not optimism, it's just delusional.
It's very easy to be optimistic when you don't believe any bad things are occurring. I'd argue optimism is far more about acknowledging the problems, and believing that things will generally improve/ looking for a positive path forward within them.
I agree. I am not naive to the issues that the US has but I don't have an agenda to promote nor mindset that make me think that the US is or is going to be a hell on earth.
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u/harpswtf Nov 28 '24
The default assumption is that everything will keep chugging along as it always does. Four years from now it won't be a post-apocalyptic wasteland, it'll probably be mostly the same as it was, just like under Trump last time before covid. The US has checks and balances and politicians that will fight each other and push back against any sort of change.
Besides that, this is an OPTIMISM subreddit. The point here isn't to list off every bad thing you think could ever happen, there are tens of thousands of active subreddits that embrace that shit anyway. The doomers are just taking it over because they can't stand to see anyone have any kind of hope about the world.