“I’ve come to the conclusion that hope has to be a strategy”
How bleak is that...
Tacitly admitting that we're going to have to get really lucky because without a heretofore unseen ability to change there's nothing coming to save us.
I wouldn't say it's about being lucky, so much as realizing that if you simply stew in your own gloominess, you get nothing done. It takes actively going out there and changing the world.
This coming year is a major election year in the US. If all of us in the US give it everything we've got, we could really ramp up turning this around. Let's treat 2024-11-05 with the same seriousness as d-day.