The mood in the US seems to have shifted over the past 10 years or so. I suspect it started long before then but has picked up the pace more recently. The mood seems to be more hurtful, more hateful, more self-centered.

I believe the human personality consists of our good nature and our bad nature. Also, based on my own personal experience, there’s a constant battle within our soul between the good and bad natures, as they each fight for dominance. For some of us, this battle is something we’re not aware of. For others, we make a conscious effort on behalf of one side or the other.

Now then, to the theory I want to offer you and how it relates to the current mood in the US: I believe that many people, most notably Donald Trump and his closest supporters, have by their behaviors, words, actions, and characters, given us permission to let the bad side of our nature win the battle and take control of our personality. After all, that’s what they appear to have done. And it’s natural for people to follow the leaders, even in their behavior.

So today we live in a country dominated by a bad nature, where pride, selfishness, bigotry, hatred, anger, and arrogance often prevail. But I believe this mood-shifting trend can be reversed. People can take back control of their personalities and their souls. People can wrest control from their bad nature. Unless they’d rather be forever dominated by that nature.