It has seemed worse from my perspective in the past. I was most fearful of my future during the mid-eighties and the Reagan administration. Before the cold war was won, it was hard for me to imagine any future where the United States was able to avoid an exchange of ballistic nuclear weapons with the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. I imagined life on earth as we know it ending in a nuclear winter. It seems melodramatic now, but Reagan's motto and method of "peace through superior firepower" seemed one very small step from disaster.
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less I say, smarter I am
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