Stress and anxiety are a huge problem right now in the United States. For the election is stressing everyone out, because who knows what’s going to happen. Like David Brooks states “That’s what’s happening this year. Anxiety is coursing through American society. It has become its own destructive character on the national stage.” We are destroying ourselves with the bad form of anxiety. And he states that the bad form is “the kind that spirals into dark and self-destructive thoughts.” -David Brooks. It seems as if we worry and stress out more than the poorer countries. The article talks about the darker side of anxiety rather than the good. David Brooks tells us that the richer buys off their privacy rather than getting the help we need, which I do agree with. It’s as if we’d rather have privacy and stress in peace, rather than leaning onto people that are getting paid to help us with the problems we are facing. David Brooks states that America isn’t the country we thought it was. “Among the less educated, anxiety flows from and inflames a growing sense that the structures of society are built for the exploitation of people like themselves. Everything is rigged; the rulers are malevolent and corrupt.” The Trump supporters keep saying that entire election is rigged, when that’s not the case. The less educated citizens are more as monkey see monkey do mindset. They don’t think for themselves, as if they don’t know how. David Brooks even states himself that “People who feel exploited by, and invisible to, those at the commanding heights of society are not going to worry if their candidate can’t pass a fact-check test. They just want someone who can share their exclusion and give them a better story.” Therefore, people are stressing out so much they don’t necessarily know what the future may hold, especially after this election is over. This election is causing so much damage “America’s culture may be permanently changed for the worse.” I agree with everything David Brooks is stating. This article has some concrete points and showing us different types of stress without even trying. The election is just making the entire country stressed no one knows what’s going to happen from here we just all must sit back and pray and hope it gets better. I have faith in humanity that it may change for better. This election just opened our eyes a bit wider.