Not sure how old you are, but I lived though the Carter years when the future looked pretty dreary and grim...
Granted these times are different in many ways, but the vast majority of Americans still have the spirit of exceptionalism in their blood and soul...
We just need to leadership to give us a vision of the "shining city on the hill" again...
God willing they will rise again...
I was Ten years old when Harry Truman was re-elected.