It’s a mixture of optimism and cynicism.
Things are bad, but also, they’ve always been bad. The fight is hard, but it’s always been hard. We’re a hair’s breadth away from ruin, but we’ve almost always been a hair’s breadth away from ruin. People are suffering terribly because of stupid, poorly constructed bullshit and won’t let it go, but they’ve also always been doing so.
And yet within all that, sometimes, through great effort and sacrifice against the status quo, good things happen. And sometimes, great things happen. We have to believe that they still can happen if we fight for it.
At the same time, we have to recognize that many before us have fought insufficiently hard, or fought their hardest but still got screwed by circumstance, and DID fall into ruin. We have to recognize that as a possibility as well.
That being said, I would fucking dread a constitutional convention held at this point in time, regardless of the rules by which the population apportioned representatives to draft it.
