...that it is "turning around".  New Supreme Court ruling removing 100 years of Campaign Finance regulations, new even-more-crazy militia movements (including the Tea Party) spreading even more dangerous, stupid rhetoric than has been seen in the mainstream in decades, and the death of the Democratic Party as something we could look to to _maybe_ balance the scales a bit.  We had our one last chance, and it was Obama and the huge Democratic majorities and the huge youth activism movement, and it's all gone now.  We got nothing, and we also lost the optimism that there really is a candidate out there who is working for us.

Nothing has turned around;  we're just savvier about politics.  Things continue to get worse, and the crises looming over our near future continue to get more dire.