YOU are delusional. (I'll be nice and retract that slightly; you have been deluded, like all of us to varying degrees over time and in different amounts according to each individual at each moment, by professional deluders.)
Try sending a *female* member of your family to Saudi Arabia and afterwards, try saying with a straight face that they don't have human rights issues.
Females are already gaining a lot of new rights in KSA that they didn't have before. It's some of the pro-Iran-1979-to-current-governership politicians that treat females much much worse that KSA is fighting; KSA is on the side of freeing women from such slavery and oppression.
USA also has human rights issues: a slave class called Illegal Aliens; white males being discriminated against at all levels; pro-racism politicians from the infiltrated and destroyed destructionist Democrat party fomenting race wars ever since 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and continuing even today; foreign opiates being brought in to kill our citizens, with complicit local pro-Communist pro-drug-dealing black market activists; massive income redistribution from good people to murderers, thieves, and awful people; the lists go on and on and on.
Saudi Arabia has massive, massive, massive human rights issues
That is a pure lie; likely you're just parroting others.
and everyone except you knows it.
False; I have updated information, and a minimum of ten thousand USA citizens know the updated information, and quite likely more than 50,000 USA citizens have the updated information.
They have been bad guys for most of their history,
That is an oversimplification which begets comparisons that are a bit illogical, like "So has USA!", and such things.
being founded by a warlord who took concubines as prizes.
So did USA. (See that example of my prior point?) But regardless of its
founding, which we can chatter about for hours, the question is not what it was founded as, but what it has done
recently. At present, even using the moral equivilency of comparing USA to KSA, KSA has been very morally good for far longer than USA; USA has been good since the election and swearing in of POTUS Donald Trump in 2017, and KSA has been good since before 2006; they have us squarely beat in that arena. USA was downright evil in terms of international human rights during the Obama admin. The atrocities committed in our name are bewildering.
Maybe they'll become civilized soon,
They're on their way more than we are
but right now they're destroying archaeological sites
I'd like to know more information about that; that sounds like (1) finger pointing without knowing what to point at, and finding some bones and saying "hey you're killing dead people!" and (2) a pretty weak attempt at blaming someone for something
and bombing civilians from aircraft
COMPLETE FALSE LIE; the OPPOSITE is the truth.
while imprisoning bloggers for heresy.
That might be true, but one of their major problems is Communist infiltration from Iran, China, and whatever Russia is called now; that is a worldwide problem. KSA has just been much more active and responsible about stopping that type of activity.
Most of the population can't vote and doesn't have citizenship.
I believe you're talking about foreign workers, which KSA is actively in the process of having leave the country now. KSA can run their country how they see fit; mob rule is hardly a great measuring stick for human rights morality, so "Demokracy" is hardly a rallying cry (thank god McCain is dead now).
they *advertise* that they're doing this stuff.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, but I do concede that there is a measure of false information coming from that region so that they can work under cover of misapprehension by their enemies, but they may be just be working under the false information being spread
about them by their enemies.
Maybe the current crown prince will change things, maybe not
We're on the same page there.
I disagree: you have the same mentality that the prior Baby Boomer generation in USA had: place someone in a bottle, change the goal posts so they're never allowed out, and by no means let them improve or succeed or get better in any way, and use that false goal post as a way to say "see? you aren't allowed to get better", holding them down.
they have massive issues.
Everyone does. Otherwise, why be alive?
They've gotten away with it because of oil.
That used to be a major reason for much overlooking of evil by many bad people from around there, and bouyed up by UK and USA along the way. It's part of why the evil of 1979 caused so much trouble, but that's not directly KSA's fault as far as I know, and that has been the source of most the region's evil. I concede that oil not being forever might be, even is, one of, if not KSA's major reason for getting better, but they started getting better decades ago, and have been improving ever since.
I recently decided to read the history of their half dozen Kings since their "founding", as you so put it, and in the last century, they have had a number of different Kings with different policies, similar to how USA has had a number of different Administrations and Congresses that have had a number of different policies, and in both cases, some better than others (and the corrolary, some worse than others). Their recent improvements have been multigenerational, multidecade, and one-directioned: improvement. That's a very good score in my book, and I estimate that they are already far improved compared to what your view of them is.
