# Messages of hope in a dark time **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 5, 2026, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messages-of-hope-in-a-dark-time/1029793 "2026-05-05T00:17:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2026, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messages-of-hope-in-a-dark-time/1029793/31 "2026-05-27T07:46:01Z")
Take care it doesn’t degenerate into doom and gloom like the tips and tricks thread has a couple times. It’s so easy to overlook the pearl when there’s so much shit to go through. > [@What are your tips and tricks for keeping mental health in a crazy political era?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-tips-and-tricks-for-keeping-mental-health-in-a-crazy-political-era/1030352/): > > Thread is, of course, about Trump/MAGA, but also only partially so. The current insanity, cruelty, destructiveness, idiocy, and secondhand embarrassment won’t stop for 2.7 more years. That’s a long time. And it may persist even beyond that. People often say, “Go volunteer,” but IMHO, volunteering for a good political cause and seeing it be wrecked or fail anyway can be more harmful mentally than not having volunteered in the first place. I’ve worked on political campaigns before and there was … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messages-of-hope-in-a-dark-time/1029793)._