Everything else...

What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?

What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?

What if the rainforest ADVANCES?

What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?

What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?

What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?

What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?

What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?

What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?

What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?

What if we win?

Relatedly, did you know that in the United States it's legal for children to be married but not for those same children to initiate any legal proceedings including filing for divorce (source)

(As of now, March 2026, child marriage is legal in 34 US states. Until 2018 it was legal in all of them, and child marriages happen yearly in every single state where it is legal. Over 310,000 children were married in the US between 2000 and 2021, 86% of them underage girls married to adult men an average of four years older than them. Also in many states, "being married to your victim" is literally an exemption to statutory rape laws. source, source)

Shit used to be wild, and this is just what I could find that had decent sources, I've heard a lot more horror stories.

"race is a social construct": a bit harder to swallow for some but still reasonable