If it helps in any way, every country in the world has their set if problems, but in essence it evolves around the fact that many/most people are incapable of realising they were wrong and change their behaviour and voting.

One of Germany's issues for example is that while industrialization has made the country prosperous it also made it demitral to the environment. Those that lived in the golden times and worked for it naturally don't want to miss out their hard-earned pensions. However the younger generations have to work even harder to finance their pensions as they make up much of the population. Meanwhile the world's environment is fucked and we need to swiftly transform the country which is expensive all the while dealing with rising nationalism in the world slowly rising in heat and already discharging into war around european neighbourhood. And yet the same lucky generations are calling us weak and lazy, but insist on voting parties that don't have any tiny ounce of interest to work to deal with the problems we face and actually oppose working towards an actual solution.

So yeah, i am honestly quite hopeless for the future myself, but I force myself to at least try to change it - I mean sticking our heads in the sand only helps the assholes doesn't it?

It sounds to me like your parents are engaging with nuance in a complicated world, rather than boiling everything down to either "this is good" or "this is bad".

ETA: You're welcome to downvote me, I don't mind, the points don't matter. But I prefer discussion. Tell me why I'm wrong so we can have a conversation!

For what it's worth, you're not alone. I think I'm going with the whole, "I must outlive my enemies" ideology for coping, because fuck it. But it's always refreshing to hear from like-minded people, when sometimes I feel so helpless to change anything. Ignorance has run rampant, but at least I know there's friends all over the world