This turned up on Janis Ian's Facebook page today, a remark she asked for permission to share. It has some easy to understand points that could be addressed to the current party in power in the US: (in other words, there but for the grace of dog go you, so treat people better):

[From Janis Ian] A gentleman on this page wrote this in response to another thread, and I asked permission to repost it. Enjoy!

Whenever I feel like complaining, I think about kindergarten. I think of my classmates and how many wanted to become doctors, lawyers, race car drivers singers, actors, etc. Then I think about statistics and how some of them became addicts, some became homeless, some became criminals, and some developed mental illness which put them in a different kind of prison.

Some had dreams of retirement on a tropical island when statistically many are no longer with us. All these bright happy children, through no fault of their own made a wrong choice, had a bad break, and their life became permanently darker.

I think of these former classmates and how anyone of them would trade places with me and take my problems, my aches and pains, all microscopic compared to their own. It makes me realize how minor your problems are.

Jimmy Carr said hot showers are fairly recent. No one 100 years ago had a hot shower. If you look at your standard of living you will have some down spots, but if you compare that with the rest of the world, you live like a king and all your problems are just a minor inconvenience to remind you on how amazing everything else in your life is.

--Harold Flay Jr

Sharing here as I fuss about a messy house and yard yet I have that hot shower and enough food and a good roof over my head.