Everyone who is a member of a demographic group other than heterosexual white Christian males has had to fight to attain the equal place in American society that is their birthright.
Quit your PC whining. Everyone has had to struggle in this country, asshole.
It is not your place to judge whether any particular group of Americans has "squandered" anything, as if you have some right to make pronouncements from your imaginary perch high atop Mount Olympus.
It's just as much my right to voice an opinion as it is yours. If you don't like my opinions, tough shit. This is America. I refer you to the 1st Amendment, and it doesn't only apply to you entitled little sissies on the left.
You appear to be completely ignorant as to U.S. history, so I think that you are the asshole here. From voting, to equality under the law, to social equality, every other demographic group has had to fight, as a group, politically and on the streets, for the rights that white heterosexual Christian males took for granted.
I know that you have the right to voice your useless opinions; they remain in print here and you haven't been denied your "First Amendment rights," dickhead. This is America, as you say. But because this IS America, the rest of us have the right to voice our opinions of your opinions and also to voice our opinions of your group, which I gather is one comprised of white heterosexual Christian males who insist on playing identity politics and who appear to feel that they have an entitlement that they have not earned.
Because I am the daughter of a white heterosexual Christian man who had an unfailing sense of ethics, a deep-seated sense of fairness, a deep-seated spirituality, and lived his life with unfailing integrity, I cannot make blanket statements that encompass all white heterosexual Christian males. My late Father and those like him still living do not deserve to be disparaged.
As for you white heterosexual Christian males who act the way you do, right-winger "conservatives" playing identity politics and prancing around with noses in the air with an unearned sense of entitlement, whining about women, people of color, LGBTs, Muslims, and just about everybody else, acting too big for your britches, we all have the right to call your BS. If you don't like it, hang up your track shoes for good.