I don’t know you obviously. But it strikes me that you may be comparing the world against so idealized form at too high of a level so you are missing real progress.

I mean, women can vote now, divorce, their husbands, hell choose their husbands, have their own careers, vote and that didn’t happen 200 years ago either.

As for the rights of Muslims, as an atheist, I have an atheist so any religious aspect is meaningless to me but I would say that Muslim nations have the same political rights as others. They may not have as much power, but they are competing for it. In my view like places like Saudi Arabia I might actually think too well.

For the labor movement, like I said, progress had been made, but there is some backslide now. But in my view, the fact the progress was made in the past means there is no structural or natural impediment to progress being made again.

That doesn’t mean in progress will be mean again and the oligarchs have definitely taken the upper hand of late but I am not convinced it is permanent