Cornflour:

Sorry for making it personal. I hear you.

For me optimism is a choice I made long ago, which I could argue saved my life. But I’m not entirely foolish nor ill-informed; it makes sense as well.

I respect your comments here.

Richard F Cook:

Opinions vary.

Pessimism is what I call “Whistling into the graveyard.”

Recall, if you will, that the present crew who run the US were once a splinter group called the New Left in the 1960s. They didn’t get where they are now by explaining how their cause was hopeless.

https://news.sky.com/story/the-left-wing-french-coalition-hoping-to-raise-minimum-wage-and-slap-price-controls-on-petrol-13175395

Melenchon who wants to be pm is a jew haiting trotskyite like corbyn who grew up in north africa

Jean Raspail and Enoch Powell are saying “Did we call it or what!”

Look around and what do you see? Optimism now is call “Whistling past the graveyard.” Before Biden I was pretty optimist based on what I saw and experienced. Now it’s just a question of when. I don’t even think it’s recoverable.

They ride in black

How can you be so certain? I find this reflexive pessimism curious and almost pathological.
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huxley:

I hesitate to drag myself into personality issues, but a rare bit of insomnia has driven me to respond that I too am reflexively pessimistic. Is this a bad habit, personality defect, or just the inevitable result of political experience?

These days, who can’t marvel at political optimism? Is this quixotic, heroic, or medicated?

Nobody gets medicated into pessimism. What are we to make of that? Is pathology implied? There’s a small part of Texas with especially high levels of lithium in the groundwater. I wonder what these special Texans think of French elections.