[little jeremiah]

So in your opinion nothing can ever change for the better.

Defeatist attitudes are the very thing that enables nothing to change for the better.

Defeatism is how wars are lost.

[Paladin2]

Not defeatist, just realistically judging the future. Remember that Mitt seemed to be a winnah.

Me? I'm working on going deeper Galt to starve the beast and live out my life in peace while trying to my kids to recognise where they are and to do something about it.