Where will we be a year from now?
I believe in one year we will be about two months from having celebrated a normal Thanksgiving, one month from celebrating a normal Christmas, and a few weeks from celebrating a normal New Year's. We will be anticipating a normal Easter and Passover season.
But our entertainment will still be different. Most live entertainment will still be just gearing up to restart; the few venues and productions that managed to open in the closing months of 2021 will be struggling to attract an audience that remains wary of gathering in closed spaces. Movie theaters--those that manage to re-open--will be short of material to show and remain so probably until the spring.
Our politics will be different and yet the same. Governing by legislation (rather than executive order) will have made a return, thanks to a Senate that does not operate as a dam to all bills coming from the House...but there will still be Republican opposition to a lot of what the Biden administration wants to do and the filibuster will let them block some of it (but not all--they will no longer want to be seen as the party of "no").
The extreme right-wing will still be with us...but much diminished by criminal trials and convictions, as well as general public recrimination. The fear is that they will go deep underground, back to where they were a decade ago, only to occasionally burst out like some horror movie monster in violence.
I remain optimistic but realistic of our future.
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