Richard Haas: What will have happened in most into winning decades that would make us a little bit more optimistic? He says technological breakthrough, just like the mRNA vaccine and Zoom, finally enough to got us through the pandemic. And America is in much better shape than it was 30 years ago; perhaps people are living up to their obligations. Richard Haas: No single change, but a center of change is a realization that things really are going off the rails.