"If you feel that everything is terrible and everyone lies, then people don’t want to engage in civic discourse..."

Welcome to the lessons of Election Day 2020 (USA), which are more hopeful than maybe we realize.

I got that quote from this newsletter (New York Times "On Tech"), and then also earlier today I received Mark Manson's newsletter, which was about learned hopefulness. Pretty much all I do on Mondays is read newsletters and periodically do some work for people, but Mondays and Fridays tend to be less of the "work for people" variety.

First, consider the …