The future of the blind: same as the past. Stuff will get sorta-kinda better, then technology will take a huge leap, we'll be left out for a decade or fifty, repeat ad machina. Kings come and go, empires rise and fall, but the poor you will always have with you, until someone solves scarcity and distribution. And the blind you will have with you also, until you don't. Until then, more of the same: some good here, some less good there.
Basically, after all the breakneck technological change of the past century, what's changed? Software. And software won't hold still. So until someone solves blindness outright, I don't see any changes beyond the occasional NVDA or Seeing AI.
If the world does a swan-dive into the abyssal graves of communism, meh, would it be different if the world instead succumb to fascism,? Barring massive technological upheaval, we're approximately as doomed as always. So if you aren't especially doomed atm, keep on not being doomed. Me, I'ma kick the air until I can convince the powers that be that I'm not going to break the universe by doing something productive.

And I don't think that most conservatives believe what you think they do about the blind.

Whether socialism is a workable political ideology or not doesn't change the fact that you can't call it freedom and democracy when you're vilifying to that hysterical extent, anyone who doesn't adhere to a particular political viewpoint. In a true democracy people are allowed to hold political views of any sort. It's up to the people to decide whether they're valid or not. Saying it's unpatriotic to have a certain political view is undemocratic. That article is filled with the most ridiculous mud-slinging: like saying everyone who believes in socialism can't spell. It was one of the stinkiest pieces of journalism I've read. It's just garbage, has nothing to do with blindness, and is just an excuse to post insanely biased political propaganda on a forum that has nothing to do with politics. It was pretty much a political hate speech. If people want to start a political thread in the off topic room of course they should be allowed to do so, even if it is a recipe for flame wars, but don't dress it up as being relevant to the blind folks that make up the majority of this community when the link is so tenuous as to barely exist.

Seven and 8 get it.  In the end it's not a question about what party you swing with, but what kind of person you are individually that can make all the difference.  For every fault you can name for liberals and democrats I can name one for conservatives and republicans and or the other way around.
Conservatives think liberals are immoral atheists who all believe in anything so long as it can scientifically be published as a theory, who will live as if life has no consequence.  Liberals believe conservatives are ignorant at best, stupid at worst, for believeing in books full of fairytales and holding to antiquated practices because that's what they've always held to.  Conservatives argue that freedom of speech gives one the right to claim homosexuality is an abomination.  Liberals would limit that kind of freedom because it promotes exclusivity and isolation, while simultaneously using their own kind of hate speech in words like homofobic hatemongering biggot and not seeing that at all as negative or insensitive.  Conservatives will tell you they work hard hours even when it's clear all they've done is inherit their parents' wealth.  Liberals will tell you their parents worked hard and so they personally know what it's like for a family to struggle, all the while advocating for taxing the wealthiest based on their wealth regardless of anything else.  Conservatives willingly ignore their families had to come here from somewhere else as migrants.  Liberals willingly ignore the threats an entirely open door policy would pose to every citizen of such a country.  Conservatives willingly erect confederate flags as so-called historical landmarks no matter who's feelings they hurt.  Liberals would burn them down because they're offensive, simultaneously proclaiming that history should not be forgotten but not glorified.
I just finished reading an article that says that politics have turned social media into a steaming pile  of hate, but I actually think it's the other way around; social media has turned our politics and our political discussions into hatefests.   Every news article I read now where subjects are polarizing, you'll find that it's journalists who note that social media has stirred an uproar.  Instead of going outside and forging friendships through personal interactions as we once did, where a friendship actually meant something because people were people regardless if we could or could not agree on everything, we now find it much, much easier to stay within our own little social circles, unfriending and unfollowing one and all who disagree with us or doing even worse by trolling them because we're annonymous which means we can be anyone we wana be and never get caught.  There's a thin thin line between love and hate and all of our beloved platforms are learning how to exploit said line for their own personal gains, sharing data back and forth with one another to gather as much information about all of us to keep their companies as proffitable as possible.  The market is all that matters; people and their feelings are the casualties.
You can claim to be a conservative, a centrist democrat, a liberal, a millennial, a memmber of Generation Z, a man, a woman, a homosexual, a heterosexual, an a-sexual, a mutated pile of genetics that just managed to escape becoming a snowflake, but whatever you claim, it's the words and the actions that are going to dictate who and what you are.  I'm human; I'm not perfect.  I'm going to disappoint and I'm going to be disappointed.  My life is not an ongoing political statement; it is a process full of experiences between when I was born and when I breathe my last in this world.  I learn, love, laugh, need, want, wish, wait, come and go, stay when I have to and walk away when I have to, fight when the chips are down and run when the race has yet to be won, do my best to limit confusion and solve problems, and if I can't make a friend out of you and I find that you can't make a friend out of me I'll give you the chance to respectfully move on because I expect you to do the same for me.  I'll be glad you're you and that I'm me, knowing all the while that it takes all sorts to make the world go round.