On: Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse

Also a relentless diet of negative headlines, twisted by media outlets to make 'their guy' seem not quite so bad by comparison, doesn't help.

Yea I find it ironic this article is coming from the NYTimes that runs 40 "breaking" stories about a certain oompa loompa every chance they can. It's gotten so bad I canceled my sub recently because I don't want to scroll through a page of op-eds every fucking time.