Reply #50: We are on our way down, have been, I agree that it's not necessarily a permanent condition. [View All]

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I see no reason at present to think it's going to get better any time soon. As long as our political/economic system remains corrupt and decadent, things will get worse.

It is true that great improvements have been made in the areas of civil and human rights for women, non-whites, gays, etc., it is the thing I am proudest of about this country. But it does not cancel out the casting of millions of our fellow citizens into poverty, into ignorance, into jail, the spineless greed which permeates our society too.