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Hope and hopelessness

Polls show that huge numbers of people believe the future of Western society is dark and that the future of this country is not bright. There are a lot of factors involved in this hopelessness, including moral decay, political gridlock, and growing social divisions. But I’ve seen rays of hope, and a promise of the future, even in a Communist country, forty years ago. [1]