President Donald Trump on Monday showed his first signs of retreat since surging federal immigration agents in Minnesota late last year — replacing the leader of the crackdown on the ground and signaling new willingness to cooperate with the state’s Democratic elected officials.
Sorry. Just tend to be a cynic. In America, the worst usually turns out to be true.
Try to remember that blind cynicism is no more rational or realistic than blind optimism. Both are a presumption that reality conforms to our biases. Cynicism feels more realistic, but that’s a trap (an easy one to fall into). In reality it’s just that for most people it feels better to expect bad things and be surprised by the good than it does to expect good things and be surprised by the bad. But neither expectation is grounded is fact, only in our psychological need to protect ourselves. Whenever an assumption "feels right’, that’s when we most need to question it.