In the 100,000 foot view of humanity, we seem to have to cycle through these cycle as phophesized in The Fourth Turning in 1997. They said we'd have a period of political unstability between 2020-2026. History is cyclical. We take two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights, women's rights, voting rights, rise of the right, etc etc seem to happen over and over again on this grand cycle. Mainly because we keep forgetting the lessons of the past and stuff that happened 80 years ago is no longer fresh in people's memories. Between the politcal crisises around the world and the war in Ukraine, it might get a lot worse before we go to a new and better future. (Well we still have climate change to deal with but maybe in a brighter future we might actually do something about it). I still have hope