This decade began with a pandemic. Its origins and impact can be debated, but it did enormous and lasting harm, unreasonably.

The last presidential election disenfranchised a party (and with it half the country), suppressing turnout. Half of this country had no say in their nominee, by design.

Then A.I. was predicted to end white collar employment.

And now we are at war, with threats to security and economic stability that are unpredictable.

Nobody wanted any of this. Such is the sentiment of our decade.