Oh believe me I'm jaded as well. What we have going on right now is the opposite of progress. We're headed toward fascism on a global scale. We're already balls deep in the US.

I still think it's important to call out the positives, even in a flawed setting because that can give a glimmer of hope, and without hope we'd just surrender. Fuck that. I'm too petty for that, and wrong is wrong.

It's all the same or that's not good enough or it could have been better shouldn't get in the way of progress no matter how small. The difference between the north and south in that time may seem small now, but it was a massive difference for those that were affected. It was the catalyst that got us to the point we were at a decade ago (prior to the maga shift) which compared to north or south of the time is a monumental difference. Even a decade ago, we were no where near finished, but it was progress.