Do you have hope for our future?

I guess that in times like we are facing today, it is easy to become fearful about the future. Honestly, I am optimistic that things will get much better. I do not disagree that things might get a lot worse first. As for the race issue. I don't see that being completely resolved in my lifetime. There is so much there to be dealt with. I have adopted a colorblind attitude about people. I will and do treat everyone the same. It is my belief that if you hold yourself out as different, whether that be by color, by nationality, by beliefs, then you must be willing to accept that some people are going to find fault with that difference and you must also accept that they have the right to that opinion. How things will be better? That is very hard to put a finger on. None of us have a crystal ball. I believe we will get past this coronavirus and life will go on. I believe that we will find a solution to the ugly clashes of the political ideologies that are going on as well. I seriously doubt the solution will be what either side is looking for but will be something that falls somewhere between the extremes that are being expressed. Things have been severely divided in our government before. Granted once that led to a civil war. I've even heard whispers and rumors being batted around for several years now about another civil war coming, but I have strong doubts that will happen. Not right now anyway. While there are some groups on the edges of society that would like to see that, they don't seem to have the hearts of people of this country with them on their extremist views. How many does it take to start a war? I don't have that answer either. As for me, I am taking each day as it comes, I do what I can to lead by example. I try to post alternative points of view when I see extremist items come up. The bottom line for me: it is up to each of us to work toward a great outcome -- the outcome we would like to see. We may only be able to take tiny little steps in that direction but each one of those is one less obstacle to overcome. Mahatma Gandhi had a wonderful quote attributed to him. "Become the change you want to see." I do try to follow that, though it is exceedingly difficult at times.

We are living in difficult days and there are worse days coming before God changes things for the better and so I have lots of hope.

There is always hope, sometimes though you just have to wait it out, and hope even more that whenever you are at your lowest - there is no way but Up. don't swim too long "down there". What you said: "The problem is I don’t expect that to be the case. I have a feeling, things are going to get a whole lot worse for our country before they ever get better." I also feel this for our country. Even more that now they are passing so many laws unrelated to the pandemic and how they can help the people. they are doing things to let the poor people struggle even more. =( I swear its worst to be from Philippines right now. Our government gave up and left us for ourselves. I love history too, No matter how great the empires, and dynasties were, they eventually had to fall because there is always those that are greedy, wanting more for themselves - bringing everyone down.

I half agree with you. But I think about the planet instead of countries. Country boundaries are created by a few men.

When a society falls people often do not realize it. There was still a Roman emperor in the 9th C, although it had fallen 5 centuries before. And with a bit of sarcasm I would say that some Britons think that there is still a British Empire. Due to computers taking a space more important in our lives every day our economic system has to evolve, but such thing happens every couple of centuries, so I believe we are very lucky to live at such a moment. I have definitely hope in a progress that at the end always creates a better world for the generations to come. Any attempt to stop it has always failed.

My husband and I recently talked about how all kingdoms and empires eventually fall, wondering if we might be close to this country's end. But I believe that God may be allowing our decline because as a nation, we've continued to reject him in every area of our lives and government.

Without hope we have nothing.

The answer would be not sure. I don't know how to answer for this one..