Quite possibly. I do feel fatalistic and somewhat bitter about what has happened to the political system in North America in the last few decades. I hold out no hope of its redemption....but that doesn't mean there is no hope. There may be.

I do not expect to see everything somehow work out before I die, needless to say. It never has before, so why would it this time?

It's only in movies and TV shows that everything wraps up neatly at the end of the show. This is real life, and real life is messy.