This weird breakdowns on Twitter or ESS of voters not pledging fealty to Biden or Clinton, or breaking down at the possibility of people making legitimate demands, concessions, and pleas for relief and help met with disgust.

It's clear that both liberals and conservatives are quite reactionary but why do the former even attempt to pretend to be good people if they're just defending their privilege and identity?

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The liberal reality relies on America and capitalism being a flawed project with pure intentions. Trump represents the pure, mask off, truth about the system that they are such willing participants and believers in. Their brains simply can’t handle the shattering of their worldview and the revelation that America/capitalism has always been brutish and evil, so they just compartmentalise it as “Trump is brutish and evil“.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      As a former lib I can confirm that this is exactly what happened, except I never quite compartmentalized it and the myth-America in my brain slowly collapsed

    • constantly_dabbing [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The liberal reality relies on America and capitalism being a flawed project with pure intentions.

      the virgin Hegelian idealism vs the chad Marxian materialism