Why is Everything so Fucked?

Starting from small, and focused on Los Angeles.

LAUSD is fucked because of Prop 13, because forced busing isn't a thing, and because they let shit get way too sour for way too long before getting their heads out of their asses.

Los Angeles is fucked because the water doesn't come down hard enough in the Owens Valley anymore.

California is fucked because eventually the Gavin Newsom Liberaltarians will form their own party and govern in coalition with the Republicans to screw the poor.

Our country is fucked because of our antiquated system of picking the president, but also because the Democratic party refuses to stand up for and run on its many, many impressive accomplishments, like Obamacare and the social safety net.

But none of that matters because of global warming, which is likely going to wipe us all out in a couple hundred years, so we might as well enjoy the benefits of it now while we're here! Shorter winters!

Want to know why everything is Going to be Fine?

LAUSD is going to be fine/get better because UTLA is strong enough to fight off privatization and reject admin bullshit, but also smart enough to play ball when it comes to making needed reforms

Los Angeles is gonna be fine because it's surprisingly high ground, and eventually desalination will get cheaper, and it has enough forward-thinking people in leadership to do good for folks

California is gonna be fine because eventually liberals will realize that the Liberaltarians are Republicans and marginalize them with Harry Reid-style Latino union machines and Old-school dyed-in-the-wool coastal progressivism that continues to improve people's lives on the daily.

Our country is gonna be fine because this election will have hopefully caused a fuckton of introspection in the Democratic party, and even though some of the problems the next four years will create will be generational or even multigenerational, the arc of the moral universe is long and bends toward justice, and if we didn't know for totally and completely sure that that was true, what would be the point of sticking around?

And the human race is gonna make it because solar and wind power are quickly becoming cheaper, so that even if we have to abandon Florida and the Gulf Coast and the Carolina Lowcountry and New York as the oceans rise, we'll meet back in sunny Chicago for Chanukkah and dance around in jeans and sweaters outside but we'll be around still and reversing the problem as much as we can in 50 years.