And what about the war in Afghanistan?

The electorate gave Republicans power.

What about the Patriot Act?

The electorate gave Republicans power.

What about the total removal of our civil liberties with complete bipartisan consensus?

You'll have to be more specific.

What about the fact that Barack Obama maintained that the US has the right to attack any country on earth if it thinks it’s harboring terrorists?

Seems reasonable provided those terrorists are actively targeting the US or its allies. It's also the kind of thing you must say as POTUS even if you have no intention of utilizing the option.

What about Guantanamo Bay and the policy of indefinite detention without charge or trial?

The electorate gave Republicans power.

What about ICE?

The electorate gave Republicans power.

When I was growing up in the 90’s, the military budget was still inflated, but nowhere near what it is now.

The electorate gave Republicans power.

The country was at peace (relatively).

The electorate gave Republicans power.

There were no masked men raiding workplaces and dragging immigrants away to camps.

The electorate gave Republicans power.

The idea that the government could see your data was a paranoid conspiracy theory instead of an accepted fact of life.

Technology advanced, and the electorate gave Republicans power.

Due process was far from perfect, but couldn’t just be ignored by the government using the word “terrorist.”

The electorate gave Republicans power.

I don’t know how old you are,

Approaching 40 faster than I'd like.

so maybe you’re too young to remember a time when rights existed, but you can’t convince me we haven’t regressed because I was there and I watched it happen,

The electorate gave Republicans power.

and it was absolutely a bipartisan effort.

It was 90% Republicans, whom you wish to empower, and 10% Democrats, who did all those good things I mentioned earlier, but you don't want to reward them for doing the right thing 90% of the time even though the alternative is a party that does evil 100% of the time.

Maybe if you go all the way back to 60 years or more, you can find some progress.

I can find progress in the last 20 years. Gay rights, the end of Don't Ask Don't Tell, reforms in the healthcare industry, ... why am I bothering?

Over the last 30 years, what I’ve actually experienced and seen firsthand, things have absolutely regressed,

The electorate gave Republicans power.

and they continue getting worse no matter who’s in charge.

Things were getting better under Clinton, Obama, and Biden, especially during their brief periods where Democrats had control of both chambers of Congress alongside the White House. Unfortunately, for much of the last 40 years, the electorate gave Republicans power.

I would encourage you to actually read Dr. King, btw.

I have. Have you? Let me quote Dr. King for you:

The Negro has been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Party. The Democrats have betrayed us by capitulating to the whims and caprices of the southern dixiecrats. The Republicans have betrayed us by capitulating to the blatent hypocrisy of conservative right wing northerners. This coalition of southern dixiecrats and right wing northern Republicans defeats every move toward liberal legislation in Congress. So we confront the problem of choosing the lesser of two evils. At this point I might say however, that I feel that the Negro must remain an independent voter, not becoming unduly tied to either party. He should seek to vote for the party which is more concerned with the welfare of all the people.

Dr. King understood strategic voting for the lesser of two evils and espoused its virtues. Perhaps you should read Dr. King more rigorously and actually learn form it.

He understood the fact that none of us are free until all of us are free, a fact you seem to be struggling with.

He understood electoral realities. A fact you seem to be struggling with.