# Does America Still Have Any Optimism? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 5, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-america-still-have-any-optimism/953836 "2021-11-05T14:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-america-still-have-any-optimism/953836/21 "2021-11-08T20:07:02Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > “Make America Great Again” is just a racist slogan. Well, it brought all the racists into the tent anyway. Sure, but it’s an _ **optimistically** _ racist slogan. At least as far as the OP is concerned, it would count. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-america-still-have-any-optimism/953836/22 "2021-11-08T20:12:04Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Personally, I’m optimistic that the generations soon to dominate most facets of American affairs will not succumb to the inertia and toxic traditionalism that has plagued us for decades. I’m not so sure that’ll be the case; it’s not like generations are hard and fast things. And for the most part, the big divides in the US seem to be urban vs. rural and educated vs. uneducated. I’m not sure there’s a big change in either of those vs. generations past. What I’m hoping for is that the prevalence of the Internet and the consequent homogenization of culture will mitigate some of the urban vs. rural divide relative to say… the divide in Gen-X, where we for the most part, did not grow up in the internet age. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-america-still-have-any-optimism/953836.md?page=1)