Yeah, was pretty nice back in the early '00s and even into the '10s, but it's fallen off a cliff in the last 5-10 years.

I was visiting friends once shortly after Obama was elected ... one of them went off on this weird rant about how the his election was somehow bad because it would be used as an excuse to show that racism isn't a very big deal any more. I mostly ignored and shrugged it off at the time but now see it as an indicator of where we're at now.

I haven't talked with said friend since about 2015; last I saw he was a queer polyamorous activist who constantly whined about how he didn't make more money at his career of ... working a ticket counter at a movie theater.