People in the States know how fast our country can fall and don’t accept “well, we’ve still got a ways to go” as an excuse for the descent.
The so-called best shouldn’t compare itself to others, it should compare itself to itself from yesterday. And in those regards, we are descending rapidly, especially for those of us LGBTQ+, women and minorities.
Do not forget how fast Saudi Arabia and other countries changed from their liberal views to literal theocracies.
Trans people can't get passports[0]
Literally everything with the word "gay" is being removed from federal ledgers[1, 2]
Initiatives to **penalize** companies that still choose to have DEI hires
greatly impacts anyone that's not a white male. [3]
Anti-Abortion legislation directly attacks women's health, including when there's
a harm to the mother. [4]
Elderly may very well be missing out on their social security payments [5]
Frankly, to imagine that things aren't getting worse for women, bipoc and lgbtq+ people at this point means you've either lived under a rock, in which case, "Welcome! The world is worse now."; you're willfully ignorant of the harm that's being done to so, so, *so* many communities; or, you're acting in bad faith and sealioning[6].
The so-called best shouldn’t compare itself to others, it should compare itself to itself from yesterday. And in those regards, we are descending rapidly, especially for those of us LGBTQ+, women and minorities.
Do not forget how fast Saudi Arabia and other countries changed from their liberal views to literal theocracies.