Do we need to be positive about the future?

Have you seen what's going on in the world right now? What do you think? I'll tell you one thing - I wouldn't want to be born today.

You can't be assured that things will get better or even stay the same. Timothy Snyder talks about the politics of inevitability, the mistaken idea that democracy will remain no matter what despite the many forces on the far right trying to break it down and install authoritarianism.