People are who they are, a leopard can’t change its spots. You’re not going to change anyone’s mind that hates.
Except that happens all the time. People that once wore sheets and burned crosses, and had swastikas tattooed on their bodies learned that they were wrong and changed their minds.
The earth is doomed, we have polluted our air and water, climate change is inevitable and we will all be underwater, and whole species are going extinct.
Except that the air is cleaner than it was even a couple of decades ago, even though we have more factories and cars now. Solar and wind power is on the rise, no matter how hard the robber barons that run the fossil fuel industries try to stop it. So many species have been brought back from the edge of extinction and are doing better, some thriving.
Crime is everywhere, minorities are destroying the neighborhoods, welfare fraud is everywhere, you aren’t safe outside at night anymore.
Except that crime is down in most areas, and although poverty is rampant in some minority areas, people and organizations are working everyday to form stronger communities and help life people out of poverty. Blighted neighborhoods are being revitalized everyday. By a wide margin, welfare is helping good, honest people that need it, and more white people get welfare than minorities. We only hear about the bad and sensational stories because that’s what sells. It’s not reality.
The Trump administration is destroying America, and the government is broken and can never be fixed. Our freedoms are being stripped away, and America is headed for a collapse.
Except there have been as many bad presidents and administrations as well as good ones. The pendulum swings back and forth, and no one person or administration is going to topple the United States government. There has always been corruption, there has always been a battle to keep the corporate interests from taking over our leadership, but we the people and the Constitution always have something to say about it and win out in the end. Even though Republicans have a majority on all sides of government, they can’t get anything done because the people won’t let them take our rights and programs away. There is actually good in this whole scenario; this is a wake up call, because a lot of us have been asleep for far too long.
The point is, people tend to gravitate towards the negative aspects of things, but if that were reality the human race would be long gone by now. People have been predicting the end times for millennia, and yet here we are, with a lot of us still working for the betterment of mankind, and for the most part we are winning. I could cite example after example of this, but I don’t have that kind of time, this should be enough to illustrate my point. Change doesn’t happen overnight, but change is constant, so we all have to do our part while we are here and pass the torch to a new generation to carry on the work. And if you think things are that horrible, go out and make them a little bit better. There is no shortage of people and things that need help and attention.
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