Two steps forward one step Back?

This is often what it is like climbing on shale or snow climbing a mountain. Civilization climbs a mountain too every single day like this in regard to human progress.

Only I would have to say that during the Trump administration we took two steps backward into the 1950s.

It was inevitable that this would happen and likely it's getting worse now. People couldn't deal with the extreme change of the 1960s and 1970s and it has taken this long for white nationalism and white conservatism to raise its (Ugly head?).

Liberals are going to be horrified by all this and I think this is to be expected. Many people cannot handle the extreme changes and the experimentalism of the 1950s through the 1970s and 1980s. So, even what has happened to the Supreme Court moving so far right it might kill abortions in the U.S. also should be expected in many different ways if you have studied what human progress is like in reality rather than in theory. Gay rights might be taken away too for awhile in all this in addition to abortion being almost stopped before another progressive burst hits the U.S. some time in the next 10 to 30 years from now.

If you study history it all makes complete sense. If you live in an ideal progressive reality you cannot help to be horrified.

I think I can demonstrate how far we have come by just sharing what for me was a very progressive era in the 1960s and 1970s.

At that time I just wanted gay people to stop being killed by white thugs on weekends all across the U.S.

There were even high school football players at my high school who went out with baseball bats into Hollywood to kill gays and black men that they found on streets there. This is how much the world has changed since the 1960s. When I heard about football players like this it reminded me of the football players in "Revenge of the Nerds". If you watch this movie people just like this actually existed in the 1950s and 1960s when I grew up. You had to know how to fight to survive when I grew up. If you coudn't or wouldn't fight your life was going to be literally hell in the 1950s and 1960s if you went to ANY public school in the U.S.

This is how much it has changed since then. Then it was fists and elbows and clubs and sometimes knives.

Now it is drive bys with tech 9s and uzis and Assault weapons killing people at random in gangs.

Life has changed completely to where people don't fight as much, and they just kill each other instead.

Is this progress?

I don't think so.

At least when I grew up you might be knifed or beat with a club or chains but usually you survived after a stay in the hospital. Now if you are shot by an assault rifle designed to kill by quickly bleeding out you won't even survive to get to a hospital.

Is this progress? 

I don't think so.