We seem to have this tendency to feel a loss right now. This thing that we feel that we have lost, though, was only a figment of our imagination. We feel like we lost our voting right, but we never had it. We mourn for the loss of the swamp drain, but it has never happened. We feel like we lost our President, but he is still in office. We feel like we lost a corruption free government we never had.

Rather than comparing our imagined past to an imagined future, shouldn’t we be honestly comparing our current situation to where we really were?

Here is one set of metrics we could evaluate honestly - troop size, troop skill, and troop commitment. China has been sending dedicated citizen soldiers to America to be spies an we dont know what all. They have large numbers of skilfull and dedicated off-the-books troops. USA was essentially bankrupt on these citizen-warriors, but now we have patriots. And we can get an idea of the size of our citizen-warrior patriots by Trump Rally attendance. Those are huge numbers. On the category we have moved from bankrupt to powerful, and this is not imaginary, but a huge liquid asset.

Anon believes we are, in-all, much better off today that we were 5 years ago.

And the future is yet to be seen.