Genuinely asking like not even in a depressed way or anything but as someone who is largely optimistic I'm running out of reasons to justify NOT thinking that this is like the end of humanity or whatever 
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Nothing has changed. You are just more aware. WWII was, by all accounts, a pretty fucking wild time to be alive. Cuban missile crisis would have felt like the end of the world to those in the know. Ronald Reagan was a celebrity politician who ran as a populist and enacted horrible policies that were similarly fascistic. He also got shot at during his election campaign.
 

The world is a rock hurtling through space. Everything is and has always been chaos, so there is no more or less reason to be optimistic now than there ever was.
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It depends who you are and where you live. For Americans it’s true nothing really changed. Mostly. Trump is just another symptom of the bigger picture.

But in some regions in the world, you can actually feel the inflation by the months, and you know.. die because of the chaos literally change the life conditions. 

The world is going though a period of change and change hurts.
user
Change hurts but it's also constant. My point isn't to  trivialise any of it. Hope is important to effecting change and there are reasons to be hopeful as plentiful as the reasons to be afraid. Same as it has always been.
assistant