I really had expected that things would get better faster. I had no idea there were so many "deplorables" in the world. That was especially discouraging.
Meanwhile, we have seen a lot progress in many areas, but the right keeps pulling us in the opposite direction. Same sex marriage and LGBTQ rights were a major accomplishment, but republicans are determined to not just undermine those rights, they want to ban books, abortion access, diversity education, and even birth control. Sometimes it feels like they just do it out of spite, because they are programmed to hate anyone they perceive as "left", not realizing that what they think is "left" is actually quite moderate.
It is a cycle and it won't last, but I am concerned about how much damage they will do before this cycle ends. That said, there still are a lot of sane, reasonable people in the world and fortunately we can interact with a lot of them here! 
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