Ivaylo Markov (@ivoshisan)

And how much of this progress actually exists or continues to exist? Especially, but not exclusively, Republican-controlled states have made or are about to make huge turns backwards (women's rights/reproductive rights, Civil Rights laws, labor laws, social security/medicare)! Corruption and despotism have never been so dominant, or unashamedly and openly displayed in US politics from top to bottom, as they are today. At least, not in recent memory or history. And the state of society is very likely to even degrade further, so... Progress is not a given. It's not an automatism. And very clearly not. The last decade is more than evident in that regard.