The most hopeful thing in this country of more than 330 million people is that most of the people are good people. They don’t hate. They are not paranoid and insecure. They are not bullies. They do not discriminate or hate for no reason or because of fear or because of ignorance. They don’t cheat to try to win and get their way in politics by being the biggest loudmouths and bullies or by dividing and conquering the fractured and polarized political space using racial, xenophobic nationalistic, and extreme and radical politics as a means of taking power.
Most Americans are not lap dog servants of the ultra rich. They are not violent and do not use violence as a way to achieve their agendas. Most of the more than 330 million Americans are peaceful, civil, empathetic, and civil people. They are good people. And the great thing is that they are now participating more in their government, the government that is supposed to represent them, work for them, and protect them, much more proactively than they had been for a very long time. And, I believe, there is less apathy for politics than there had been for a very long time.
That is what makes me feel hopeful about America: that the vast majority of Americans will eventually find a way to serve their own best interests by standing up for what is good and right and no longer continue to allow bullies or self-serving opportunists to take advantage of them and retain control and power over their lives. Eventually, Americans will actually govern themselves and work to create the government of, for, and by the people that the founders had in mind when they wrote the constitution.
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