Women have more power than ever in American politics. Life is objectively better? In what way?
Most of mazlows hierachy of needs are being met globally for more people.
I mean, I cba to get into anecdotal specifics about things like lead in your water pipes and car exhaust fumes, asbestos in your walls, more controls on things like companies dumping carcinogens into drinking water sources, improved medical care and better and earlier diagnoses of disease etc, but a human being born today has a better chance of a longer healthier life than they did half a century ago, which ultimately is the best test of life;
being alive.
The purpose of today's humans is to consume, consume, consume while we wallow in spiritual decay and degeneracy.
One persons 'spiritual decadence' is anothers 'greater tolerance'.
Not so many, say, abortion clinics being bombed nowadays.
Also as a non-american, I greatly appreciate that 9/11 taught american citizens what terrorism fucking feels like and they generally chilled with funding that shit abroad so much.