Agreed. And for all of people's complaints about the times we're living in (coming from the left and right) -- I still believe our country's been through way worse...and the world for that matter. Particularly the Western world.
I for one, am glad not to be alive during our Civil War nor during Nazi/Soviet times at their peaks.
Horrific times still define other parts of the world, but hopefully places like North Korea will be free in my lifetime...
have been* alive I mean.