James, safe bet, don't you think? Look at the last 10 years and tell me the world in 2026 won't be as different from the colossal change in human activity since 2006. Everything's changing at warp speed. The issue is will it will be better?
On the evidence of the last year in the US and UK, stupidity still reigns, one making the biggest foreign blunder since George III lost the American colonies, the other allowing a celebrity businessman to take over a great party as his own.
Where did you get the notion of a president or any political party accountable to the electorate as guarantor of gun rights or smithing activity? There is no other reliable option in the US than NRA.
You say above pols can't be trusted.