Here, and in many other places in the real world and on the web, you have the company of reasonably healthy, non-malicious people who genuinely wish you well.

This is actually the natural state of things. The Great Awakening is entirely (at bottom, in my view) about restoring that natural state -- which involves both waking people up to that truth and combatting the evil which opposes it.

People are motivated largely by empathy, kindness, and a desire for non-coercive cooperation. This is true for other primates also – indeed, for mammals generally, which is why so many of us have dogs or cats as pets: These animals make loving family members and companions, despite their instincts for hunting and killing prey. Indeed, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs, calls love "the master emotion of dogs."

Primatologist Frans De Waal, author of The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society, is among the best-known advocates of this view, now becoming mainstream in scientific circles, that human nature is fundamentally kind, cooperative, and empathic, with a strong sense of fairness and concern for others.

So why all the cruelty and corruption in the world?

The most fundamental and important answer is: Cruelty to children. This has been true for thousands of years; violent or corrupt societies are cruel to children on the whole; healthier societies treat children with love and empathy.

Jesus knew this, and made clear that we were to prevent adults from "offending" children. He also made clear that the path to the kingdom of heaven involved becoming as little children.

Trump knows this also and has from Day One been working to stop the horrific exploitation of children around the world.

Science knows this from hundreds of studies and from scientific principles (among other things, disturbances early in the growth of a complex system produce extensive and permanent change in the system).