“It is what it is” is an often-battered-about phrase today. If you think about it, it’s because the individual stated it is what it is. However, it doesn’t have to be. You can change it to what it is now because you make a change. So, if you do nothing, you are right, “It is what it is,” but if you do something about it, it becomes what it used to be.
If you take the United States as an example, it is what it is because we made it that way, but we have the power to change that. A few years ago, we were sold a bill of goods of Hope and Change, which sounded cool at the time. We were told we were a few days away from fundamentally changing into it. Well, we did that; we changed from what it used to be into what it is now. We are on the cusp of permanently, fundamentally changing America, but we do not have to. All we have to do is change course, or as I like to say, “righten the course of the ship USA” to Restore Americans' Values.