I agree they are all connected. The main reason I make this comparison is because I feel like I hear so many young people express that these are unprecedented bad times. I don't think that's true.

The pessimistic take is that it's always sucked.

The optimistic take is that we will make it through this like we've always done.


Either way, I reject we've never seen this before.

Like I see daily folks say on social media that this country has never been more divided!

We literally had a Civil War.

Which if you want to talk about how it's all connected, the source of that conflict is pretty much the source of all political conflict today.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

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