Jonathan V. Last
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That's that's just how it always is.
And shitification.
It's in shitification.
The shitification of America.
And that's the best case scenario.
Right.
The best case scenarios.
And but I've I have given up the hope that we could ever go back to American political life as it existed before.
For my entire lifetime, from essentially like 1980, I was a kid, a little kid in 1980 to 2015.
And I think that world is gone.
This is Noah Smith.
I wrote a long essay about this.
We have spent down the inheritance that the World War II generation created for us.
And that's just all gone now.
And we live in a different world, which is going to have like moral and political austerity to it.
And, uh, that is not going to be fun.
And it kind of sucks.
I, I wish that, uh, that it didn't happen, but that's just where it is.
And I, so I don't feel the way you feel.
I feel sort of more hopeful in that.