[Baynative]

Maybe the opening paragraph is meant to be facetious, but I doubt it. This seems to be an example of the way young generations view the positive track our country is on.

[rktman]

These assclowns have no clue what bleak times are. Or oppression or really much that sucks.

[FlingWingFlyer]

What bothers me is that NO ONE in the far left “media” is being hit with #MeToo “assault” and “rape” allegations by members of the porn and psycho industries. Why not?

[Simon Green]

By a huge number of objective measures, life is far, far better for the
average person than it was a century ago, and almost immeasurabley better than it was 500 years or more ago.

[samtheman]

The included charts are interesting even if the author’s opinions are those of the pedocrat party which all in the media serve, like bonded slaves. Interesting there’s no chart showing the increasing efforts of the pedocrat party and its allies to end free speech in the western world.

[BenLurkin]

“massively unpopular, scandal-plagued president”

Unpopular with who? And what scandals?

[Teacher317]

Some good info, but also some clear BS... solar and wind are NOT cheaper per MW than coal, natural gas and/or nuclear power.

[Gen.Blather]

“Maybe the opening paragraph is meant to be facetious, but I doubt it.”

A huge number of public presentations; news articles, YouTube videos, and TV shows contain at least one zing on Trump. In many cases, they go on to present data that could easily exonerate the target of the zing. In most cases, even though I am interested in the data, when I get to the zing I click away.

[mjp]

1) Extreme poverty has fallen
2) Hunger is falling
3) Child labor is on the decline
4) People in developed countries have more leisure time
6) Life expectancy is rising
7) Child mortality is down
8) Death in childbirth is rarer
18) More people in the world live in a democracy now
21) Moore’s law isn’t quite over yet
22) Access to the internet is increasing
23) Solar energy is getting cheaper

thanks to

expanding capitalism, which expands total productive ability, which expands economic progress, which expands mass wealth and mass prospertiy due to :
increased rationality
capital accumulation
increased respect for natural rights such as freedom and provate property
technological advances and technological progress

[Windflier]

"For most Americans, these feel like bleak times."

The author obviously lives in a libtard bubble, where everyone he knows, is mentally unhinged about Trump.

If any of them could see past the blood rage in their eyes, they'd see that every quality of life metric has risen since Trump has been in office.