Let’s be honest. The first half of the 2020s were miserable.

-COVID to start off the decade.

-Riots all over the summer of 2020

-Racial and gender tension at their highest since perhaps the 60s

-Worst inflation since the 1970s in 2021 and 2022, into 2023

-Decreasing social trust. Social divides on just about everything regardless of how trivial.

-Western rightward shift in 2024.

I would argue that this has been the most miserable five year period in recent memory, at least from the perspective of an American.