[pessimistic rant]
I'll be honest with myself really. When has our country truly been on our feet for the last 2 decades? So many talk about Clinton this, Bush that, Obama this, Trump that, that nobody actually considers how the more we advertise and bash one another the further in debt we go and the worse our country ends up. Politics won't stop police shootings. Politics tried to stop racism and it's still running around (though nowadays more passive aggressively). Politics tries to fix economics and in the process our debt just gets higher, our rich get richer, and our poor get poorer. Far as I'm concerned, no matter who happens to be sitting in the oval office, there'll always be controversy and our country just gets dragged closer and closer to hell.
[/Pessimistic rant]