Am I better off now than I was four years ago? Four years ago I lived in a country ruled by halfwit bigot who lied with every word out of his fucking mouth and fully expected every last human being to say whatever he said was brilliant and true and vowed revenge against any who didn't; who crammed some of the most destitute, utterly hopeless people on Earth into concentration camps and tore their kids away just to be as cruel as possible; who had just rammed through the third of three Supreme Court Justices who had each, in turn, perjured themselves in front of Congress by saying they would respect established precedent law that gave women agency over their own bodies, which all summarily reneged upon as they subordinated the Constitution of the United States to their weird medieval god; and who was even then plotting with a dead-ender staff populated with neo-Nazis to stage a coup d'etat to throw out the popular will of American citizens and establish himself as America's first dictator. So, y'know, yes, I'd fucking well say I am better off now than I was four years ago, and it's not remotely goddamn close.