Gloominess of mature political perspective

As I get older it seems more and more apparent that the world is on the brink of going to hell in a handbasket. But maybe that's the quasi-eternal generational view taken by people over 50 who give a shit about world affairs and politics, regardless of their position on the political spectrum. I was not a conscious entity during the glory days of the New Deal. Now looking back at that time that I know mostly through books and a few converstions with older folk, it is easy for me to depict it in my mind as a halcyon era. But we (the U.S.) was involved in a frightfully costly war and many of Roosevelt's plans were squelched by the same forces that ran the country for two previous generations, and are again running the country now. I peruse the rants of the right wing and see that they are also convinced we are on the brink of disaster, brought on by liberal forces whom they tend to regard as dangerously naive and/or near treasonous. What utter bullshit.

I read one of their screeds and once again I find myself reinforced in my political faith that socialism, in the broadest sense, is the way to establish the Good Society. I believe that some day humanity will achieve that. That does not mean that all problems will be solved. I have little doubt that if humanity does eventually achieve the Good Society, with peace, justice, freedom and prosperity for all, as we understand it, that somehow there will be an undertow generating some other problems that we can't even imagine now. Perhaps TWGAS (those who give a shit) of a certain age have similar Sisyphean intuitions that kindle their pessimism about their projects. But I think on this and conclude that we can't worry about those unimaginable problems we will likely generate, regardless of the nature of the utopias we hope to establish. As Billy Blake sez:

I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Untl we have built Jerusalem
In England's* green and pleasant land

*or wherever.