re: I don’t understand the progressive mindset

What are they “progressing” towards? What is so bad about American society in the last 50 years that one somehow thinks that radical change is necessary? If it’s such a bad place that needs to “progress”, why do so many people try to come here? Why do our opponents (and many of our friends) envy us and fear us? Why is it that most everywhere I go in America I meet honest, decent, hardworking, and for the most part happy people? What do the ideologues want to progress to?