How optimistic are you about the future of the United States?

[BurtWorm]

:patriot:

[Greyskye]

1. What timeframe are we talking about?

I have different opinions depending on how far out in the future you're talking about.

5 Years? 20 Years? 100 Years? :shrug:

[BurtWorm]

9. Let's say short-term. Five years sounds about right.

Will things turn around in that time? Stay pretty much the same? Get worse?

[Greyskye]

11. Thanks.

Short term I'm a little more comfortable about. Long term is going to get bad. :(

[Dhalgren]

2. How you doin', Burt?

Are you preparing for the coming food crunch and depression? Keep the old chin up, man...

:hi:

[BurtWorm]

4. I have to admit, I'm pretty pessimistic.

Thank you for asking. :toast:

Between you and me, it's not just that I don't trust the Republicans, the media, the corporations, etc. It's that I don't trust the whole system. It all seems out of whack to me. I've taken a cynical turn lately.

Could be that I just read a book on the Vienna Peace Conference of 1814-15, and I saw that the autocratic ways of Europe's rulers then are not so different from the ways of rulers in the US in 2008. No one ruler or diplomat wielded absolute power, but certain individuals wielded more power than any one posting on DU is likely to get anywhere near wielding. It's the way of the world--always has been and probably always will be. Our fates are in the hands of a tiny group of "leaders" who truly believe they know what's best for everybody but who have no more clue what to do than my ass does. This is how I see things today.

[BlooInBloo]

3. When people are involved, it can always go either way. That's the dignity and shame of humanity.

[leftofthedial]

5. there clearly is no justice in this country and no rule of law

so the nation can not survive without profound change (of which there is ZERO sign) or revolution.

[bdamomma]

6. I believe there is something very wrong with this country.

V

[bryant69]

7. That's why I love DU

I can just come here every time I have a happy moment and end that uncomfortable feeling right away.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[jwirr]

8. I voted Mixed. I have hope that we could have a Democratic government

but I know that we are not going to be able to overcome global warming, oil shortages, food shortages so easily. I do have faith that WHEN people begin to see the problems they will work on answers.

[jojo54]

10. Mixed.

Agreed that we're not out of the woods yet. But I'm hoping that we can restore some of the good that this country made of itself over 200 years, that took the Idiot-In-Chief only 7 to destroy.

[papapi]

12. Other. Anomie.