Are you feeling optimistic about 2025

[Gefn]

Is everyone feeling optimistic about the new year?

Two votes per person is allowed and guests are welcome to vote.

[libertybele]

...hmm....well, personally, I'm not so sure, however, for this country in general I am more optimistic. 

[corbe]

   For a guy that has long looked at the glass as 'half full', I am not optimistic about 2025 at all.  The current crop of big spending liberals we just elected has me in the category of SSDD.

[Lando Lincoln]

I don’t know how to answer that except to say, compared to recent years I am more hopeful. Is that the same as optimistic?  Maybe.

[The_Reader_David]

I've taken to quoting St. Gregory of Tours:  "A great many things are happening, some of them are good, some of them are bad."

I expect, as to told my wife at the beginning of the first Trump administration:  four years of random governance.  Trump will do many things ranging from brilliant to horrible, and we can't even say in which domains the brilliant ones and the horrible ones will be.  His main virtue is that unlike whoever would have really been running the country under a Harris administration, he will not be resolutely leading the country in the wrong direction.

[MeganC]

   For a guy that has long looked at the glass as 'half full', I am not optimistic about 2025 at all.  The current crop of big spending liberals we just elected has me in the category of SSDD.

The big spending liberals are mostly Republicans. 

[corbe]

 

[Free Vulcan]

I don't know what's going to come our way, but I'm trying as much as possible to be ready for the worst.

[libertybele]

I don't know what's going to come our way, but I'm trying as much as possible to be ready for the worst.

Prepare for the worst and hope for the  best.

[Free Vulcan]

Prepare for the worst and hope for the  best.

Yep. Unfortunately after big bouts of inflation usually comes rough recessions or depressions. I'm not sure Trump or the Fed can stop that. I mostly voted for Trump so that if at least we have to ride it down, he v. that psycho commie nutcase is in charge. Trump at least has an appreciation for freedom.

[berdie]

I've taken to quoting St. Gregory of Tours:  "A great many things are happening, some of them are good, some of them are bad."

I expect, as to told my wife at the beginning of the first Trump administration:  four years of random governance.  Trump will do many things ranging from brilliant to horrible, and we can't even say in which domains the brilliant ones and the horrible ones will be.  His main virtue is that unlike whoever would have really been running the country under a Harris administration, he will not be resolutely leading the country in the wrong direction.

Very well said! and my feelings exactly.

A year goes by in the blink of an eye in some ways, yet slowly in others. So I don't want to predict optimism/pessimism
or the entire time.

I tend to be a little in the dumps about society. But even that can change.

[corbe]

   @berdie  IMHO, As I get older Time goes quicker. I suppose weariness weights on my Soul. 
   I can still remember being in the 4th grade when Time seemed to drag on forever and ever.

[berdie]

Totally agree @corbe . It used to seem like Christmas would never get here. Now it seems like it comes every other day.

[Smokin Joe]

Prepare for the worst and hope for the  best.

[billva]

Yes I am feeling optimistic. Seeing the quality of Trumps Cabinet nominees at the Senate hearnins makes me optimistic.

[jafo2010]

Trump assuming office will be a weight off.  He will certainly cause life to improve for folks around the world, not just the USA.

Biden was such a total POS that the world suffered and millions have died because of his being POTUS.  The damage done by him and by Obama, we will NEVER recover from.

From my view, our republic has ended, and I see nothing being done to remedy that loss.

Generally, my view of the future is dark, on parallel with the movie The Road, or at best Soylent Green.

I doubt humanity survives this century on earth.  Too many have weapons of mass destruction, and when Iran acquires nuclear weapons, they will not hesitate to use them.  So, it is just a matter of time for a cataclysmic event.