I have the presence of mind to realize the progress that was made since the 60s.

You mean the power elite changed the words the used and created new assimilation paths? Do you have the presence of mind to understand that since the 60s prison populations have fucking ballooned beyond comparison and between prison and parole not a single country today or in the past even comes close to the police state we have in the US? "We worked hard" the fuck you did. Black people got violent and they got beaten and then to stop a revolution the power elite made some performative concessions while exerting their fascistic power doubly so. You didn't work hard. You just take credit for it.

But in all politeness, if you’re saying that about the usa I hope you have the presence of mind to realize that china and Europe were founded on the same

Ok, the USA is literally a European project. Of course they were founded on the same, they ARE the same. Europe hasn't demonstrably changed for the better. They are literally doing everything they can to keep brown people down and out. They rely on the USA as the their attack dog. It's the same historical process. Europe only gets to look gentle because they pretend the USA isn't an extension of Europe because some English merchants decided to declare independence. China, on the other hand, was not founded on anything even close to what the European world order was founded on. China didn't dominate 80% of the globe. China didn't commit genocide on 4 continents. China didn't built a trans-oceanic slave trade. You're projecting the sins of your fathers onto the entire world as though that absolves you instead of demonstrating that you don't understand history and what your part in it is.

Being bad is a spectrum.

Still talking in grade school terms. No one cares who is "bad" and who is "good". Until you engage with the real world as an adult who understand things like systems, sustainability, and reaction, you're going to find childish moral framings to be a real impediment to understanding what's actually going on and what to do about it.

I can tell you failed math class by this alone. Just as an aside.

That's only because you failed history. You seem to think we somehow made progress away from the white supremacist christian nationalist patriarchal genocidal mass murdering child-raping history of the country. You failed history. You don't understand that we've been in genocidal wars for 97% of the country's existence. You don't understand that we've been torturing and kidnapping and mass murdering since long before 1776 and every single decade since. The Republicans aren't dragging us back to anywhere. They're demolishing the farcical progressive veneer that sits on top of the monster. They're taking the lipstick off the pig.