Will U.S. Politics Return to Where It Once Was?

I met a fellow the other day who told me that the insanity that is present-day U.S. politics is about to swing, as a pendulum, back to a position in which once again makes sense.

I told him that I agree that it’s hard to imagine things getting more out of control (e.g., Trump running around free, and George Santos in the House of Representatives), and, for that reason, that I liked the pendulum metaphor.

That said, in nature, the normal consequence of decay and disease is death, and ultimately extinction.

We really don’t have an indefinite period of time to turn our nation around, let alone to begin to reverse the environmental collapse we’re inflicting on the planet as a whole.