The Left has always made things better. It made things better with giving the finger to King George, with The Constitution and Bill of Rights, with The Louisiana Purchase, with putting down The Confederacy, with assisting unions and ameliorating abuses of the Gilded Age (Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and other 19th century reformers being more liberal than conservative), with helping women get the right to vote, with fighting The Depression and The New Deal including Social Security, with opposing Nazism, with The Civil Rights Movement, with so much other social legislation. The Right has been a drag all along the way.