Politically downcast

I just had a political discussion with my mom. Maybe I should know better by now--I just feel downcast now. The thing is, the things that she thinks are problems (refugees, poverty, and ethnic conflicts, mainly) really are problems. But...I just hate the way she kicks downwards instead of upwards, and how she can't look outside the present system. Like, the poor people are the problem. Not the rich people. And when I say this, she agrees that of course, she doesn't like banks making a huge profit, etc. But it's unrealistic of me to want to change that, whereas building walls to keep out poor people is...realistic, I guess. : /

I wish I actually believed that things were getting better. I'm aware that the world is a complicated and place (or many places, rather) and it probably isn't going to end in an apocalypse, anymore than it is going to become a utopia. I know that I'm going to keep doing the political work that I'm doing, because whatever is happening on the large scale, I can still do good work where I am. And it's satisfying work to me, it is. Just...hope is a painful, difficult thing.

Uh, can I have a hug?