I found the following paragraph encouraging and helpful in coping with a grim global political climate.

Justin Harter writes in »Lived experiences«

But I’m optimistic, insofar as great turmoil has generally led to some pretty great advancements. People are generally pretty conservative by and large, and America is a pretty conservative country. So it takes a pretty big kick in the teeth, but you sometimes get good things on the other side. Like the end of slavery, busting up trusts, and the New Deal.

The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.