OPEN THREAD: Of despair and hope

In yesterday’s interview with David Hogg and Anat Shenker-Osorio, I asked David:

how do personally hold on to two competing feelings here: The sense of This is dire, this is hopeless, and it's not going anywhere, on one hand; and the sense, on the other hand, of Things are changing, we're building momentum, and we might be able to break the dam.

Now I wan…