The only answer I keep coming to is this country will tear itself apart. We've got groups of people who refuse to accept empirical evidence for things that don't affect them personally; imagine when you say hey, we scienced you and you're dumb because of your exposures to A, B, and C.

So yeah, I have so little hope, and I try to look at things on a more micro scale. I can't inherit the problems of thousands of miles away, especially when there are some problems here that I can deal with, and hopefully make my and my family's lives better. And then I can just hope everyone else everywhere is thinking the same way. And maybe we are. Maybe my generation will pull ourselves up by our proverbial bootstraps as soon as the generation before us is done stepping on our heads. But then I think that's too hopeful of me.