The only hope I have is that the next generation will bring more love. There is a lot of disenfranchisement due to the changes over the last 40 years. The lasting effects of coal and steel work reduction, offshoring of jobs, minority rights improving, immigration changing demographics. All of these have been very strange and alarming for a lot of people my age and older. It’s all normal to my kids though.

You’re right tho. Empires rise and fall. The whole world is fucked if we’ve hit our peak.

I normally don’t like to admit this but you’re right. OP needs to move.