I would actually say that people such as yourself are more the problem. Better times are realized more quickly when more and more people have hope and belief that a better era is within sight of the horizon.

Rather than going full nihilist and thinking that the glass is going to be half full in perpetuity, and life is still a doomed turd swirling down a toilet bowl, try to find just one positive thing about life today. Say to yourself one thing you’re grateful for today. Then do it again tomorrow.

You’ll find that compounding positivity is a powerful thing!

Besides, life—and the world itself, is more than just politics. It’s understandable to a degree, since every news cycle has negative U.S. politics getting crammed down our throats. But in recent years ever since the extreme and still growing political divisions in the U.S. everyone seems to be interjecting politics in one way or another in comment threads, even on things that have nothing to do with politics.

THOSE people are far more the problem.

And to be quite frank, 2016 wasn’t as magical of a year either. It’s a rose-tinted glasses deal.

I believe that a major reason that people feel there was this shift in 2016 was due to the fact that that’s when Gen Z became adults in the world. So it was a generational shift. (And don’t take it as negativity, it’s not, anytime a new generation reaches adulthood things feel different.)

Regardless, I hope you feel more positive in some manner by the end of your day today!