there aren't more progressive people nor fewer conservative people now than there were 50 or 100 years ago
Lots of things have improved for human rights, access to food, reducing pollution, and improving climate change
but conservatives remain conservative, and Whites remain near 50/50 from generation to generation with only a few percentage points of change
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109609941910796255
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/06/02/democratic-edge-in-party-identification-narrows-slightly/