Our president won't condemn violence and Politicians on the right all fan the flames while holding everyone to higher standards than the president himself when it comes to violent rhetoric.

Gun violence regardless of position is still always in the news, and the party in power has no intention of doing anything about it.

The political elite actively shun science.

Tech billionaires are all licking the boot - so the hopes some had that those with money and large corporate entities would keep the government in check are long gone.

Politicians actively endanger our international relationships with the entire world. Everybody in the world looks at us like a laughing stock.

The elite actively welcome and cheer for AI taking peoples jobs.

The economy is shit meanwhile our leaders lie to our faces about how tariffs and their own economic policies work and pointing at wall street gains meanwhile the majority of Americans don't invest in the first place.

Our rights are being stripped. Military/National Guard is actively deployed in the streets in places, and there is threat of deployment in other places (hint left leaning places). Any speech not aligned with the presidents values is criticized and threatened at a national scale.

Politics is just a reality TV show made for clicks and our current leaders are basically the equivalent if children bickering. "Transparency" is completely gone - they ran on transparency and then immediately flipped, who coulda seen that coming.

There is literally nothing to be happy about here unless you're already rich.

I'm not rich, but I'm still happy. I have little reason not to be.

I woke up today and the sun shining and birds chirping. I made myself and my partner breakfast, greeted people on my way to work. I got a good amount of work done, then had a nice lunch and now I'm taking a little break.

My life is better than it was growing up and substantially better than how bad it was for my ancestors.

Perhaps my expectations are lower than yours or perhaps I'm more focused on the present and my actual experiences rather than ruminating on whatever sensationalistic news story of the day is or what could happen, but while I can't say I'm happy about most of what you describe, they don't affect my day-to-day happiness. I'm not going to worry about things I can't change that may or may not affect me.

>Tech billionaires are all licking the boot

I never understood that. What is the point of amassing all that money and power if you have to grovel to terrible people?