Ytlaya posted:

The view that things are improving is a sick and warped perspective born from apathy towards the mass murder and immiseration our nation has participated in and continues to participate in to this day.

Even if you live under the illusion that the Democratic Party is granting us limited social progress, it also actively participates in granting immeasurable suffering and death to multiple orders of magnitude more people than it helps. A mass murderer doesn't suddenly become good just because they worked at a soup kitchen for a few hours. Media/culture has normalized all the violence and suffering that isn't along partisan lines (which also happens to be the vast majority of it), warping peoples' minds such that everything outside of a handful of social/cultural issues is just seen as background noise that no longer factors into one's politics/worldview

All of that being said, even if you choose to ignore the humanity of non-Americans (and poor people + non-citizens in America), it's very easy to disprove the notion that defeating Republicans will lead to a good future - you need look no further than the wealthy Democratic-dominated states (a couple of which have economies/populations the size of entire countries). How is life for working class people in California? The Democratic Party can probably create a pretty good life for you if you're an American in the top 10-20%, but it will not provide a good future for most people.