Optimism Inducing in the US

There's been optimism at the national level, but it depends on what issue you're talking about. Republican legislators who are in our most of this stuff they're doing is very much against popular opinion if they had to win elections based on these things they're doing. They would never win, but they're so much undemocratic structures there that they're untouchable. And so that for a substantial part of the US population they are living under a one party state now.