| Fun exercise, do the same thing - but for positives: - We'll be basically energy independent in 10 years - Manufacturing is being decentralized and re-shored - Our domination in tech is not slowing - Despite the news, violent crimes are near all-time lows - Education is at an all time high - Low income wages are at recent-history high - Working hours are declining, PTO is going up - Gay rights are at an all time high - Turns out, Russia isn't much of a threat - etc. You see what you want to see. It's a good idea to at least try to see things from the positive and negative sides. |
What you stated is interesting since you have to dig deeper to look for these news and even doing that, you'll have the majority of people disagreeing with you. Reality is 99% of the world atm is only looking the bad things and forming their conclusions based on that. We're literally watching the power dynamics being "shuffle" and the general perception of the US being shifted right before our eyes. These news have embolden part of the world to take action and move against the US (which is scary if you think about it since the ramifications will affect everyone) and we can say it makes sense since no country can fight all fronts at once (US and Africa, US vs EMEA, US vs China/Russia, etc..).
I'm hopeful things will get better and the western world will get its "things" together.