I am starting to have my doubts.
My biggest concern is the centralization of power and control of the information/disinformation.
The school systems began failing most kids decades ago. Good systems still exist, but most are not what they used to be.
As both sides become more militant in their approach, I see things starting to happen that would create splits resulting in the country breaking up.
I'm sure the USA and Europe will be in 20 years better than they are today. In 2019 for example we made a nice picture of a black hole - the most simple and also the very best picture of the current decade. It's a picture, which shows the reality far away, where we are able to see our ideas here and now are able to be not totally wrong - what's much more than we are able to expect in many cases. Yesterday for example I saw in TV how scientists from Iceland ... ¿or was it Greenland? ... made food with the help of specially selected microorganisms out of the CO
2 in the atmosphere. I was perplexed because this "simple" idea solves many problems - also for people who hate it to have to eat living structures. Perhaps one day we will eat nothign else than only such food. Who knows? A new door is open. We will see.
During the last years everyone in the world listened to the loud senseless noise Donald Trump was producing - and such a noise makes everyone deaf and had created totally wrong ideas about the power of narcisstic autocrats. Who is listening for example in a similar way to this what the Pope says in the Iraq today in our days now? The important message
"We are all sister and brothes and the god of love and peace love will win" is not so loud - we think, we often heard it - but do we really? - and do we really understand this very important calm message?
Everyone, who dreams of a good future for all mankind, knows that this future starts deep in the own heart - and we all are only successful if we learn to listen what the calm certainity of love and peace teaches us. The USA is a violent place on a violent planet Earth - change this! Specially change yourselve! Seek for a new planet Earth here and now around you - and perhaps one day we will be astonished that this, what we will find, will be really a great thing - for everyone of us.
And to all teachers let me say: Let no one fall! Who is not able to learn today, will learn tomorrow by the own good or bad experiences. Give everyone today also emotional and mindful strategies for bad times - and not only for good times - in the hope that really bad times never will come.