35 Americans Share The Good Things Happening In The U.S. That No One Talks About

2026 is the 100th birthday of Route 66. 100 years of getting your kicks.

One underrated positive is how much stuff is getting fixed at the local level.

A lot of cities and towns are quietly improving public spaces, libraries, transit, and job training programs. It doesn’t get national attention, but it does make day-to-day life better for people.

Hot dogs are still $1.50 at Costco.

Health insurance is broken but there’s a lot of amazing stuff happening in medicine.

Specifically, bispecific antibody treatment is emerging as a more effective and much safer alternative to chemotherapy for some types of cancer. Right now it’s mainly used for blood cancers.

The treatment forces your own immune system to fight off the cancer. Almost no serious side effects. Over the next 5-10 years it’s going to become standard treatment for many cancers.

While not as fast as it should be, we are increasing our renewable energy installed capacity. Especially wind power. Also crime, teen pregnancy are all on the decline.

The [Bureau of Land Management](https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/adoptions-and-sales) successfully adopts out tens of thousands of wild horses and burros (donkeys) per year. 290,000 have been adopted out to private owners to manage American’s wild herds.

Majority of Americans are kind people with no agenda.

People are starting businesses at record rates since the pandemic in response to the economic challenges of the time.

In other words, rather than let the challenging job market defeat them, many of us are hiring ourselves and doing much better today than if we had given up and accepted the offers that were available.

Today, people like me remember what that was like, so we offer more to the people we hire as our businesses grow, offering more to our community than the bare minimum.

Choose local businesses that pay workers well and put money back into your community. That's the way we make thinks better.

I work at a non profit, and although the current political and economic landscape is hard on us, we're still doing good work. Kids are learning real world skills that translate to careers. Poor kids are still joining our summer camps along with the rich kids. Old boats are getting new lives and providing enriching experiences to little kids and silver hairs and everyone in between.

Psa: if you can afford to give, whatever cause is important to you, please do so. One of the very first things that people cut back on during leaner times is charitable giving (I get it, I do too).

The monks walking for peace. They went through Georgia today!

Crime rates are dropping all over the country a lot of cities are seeing historic lows too!

It may not be of their own choosing (I hear it’s because they can’t afford it), but younger people are apparently drinking less these days!

I got hired to work at the Super Bowl halftime show. So that will be 2 weeks of me not being bored, freezing, and miserable and I get to go to California for the first time. So that’s a positive development in my American life, I suppose.

There is tons of content online on how to every hobbie imaginable. There are programs where you can volunteer at foster homes and animal shelters. You can tweek your content to just funny cats and plan the perfect vacation anywhere in the world. 


You can completely opt out of the negative content and doom scrolling with a few content resets. .

On an individual level, Americans (& people as a whole) are still kind & friendly as anywhere else and I genuinely believe that most would do something nice if given the opportunity.

I believe that even has only increased as s**t has hit the fan.