Yeah good point. Starting to realize liberalism as a set of beliefs is just a barely-connected series of talking points and word-games placed in all the right conversations and institutions like pinball buffers, designed to keep you bouncing around a mental maze instead of just noticing the obvious truth in your payslips. They can only keep it so freakishly clean looking because theres billions of dollars and dozens of think tanks behind it frantically laying tracks ahead of themselves like Bugs Bunny
They have a lot more "for" than "against". Being for country, for their own kind, for families, etc. Meanwhile when 5% of what you do is not knee-jerk contradicting the other side...
In terms of their ideals sure, but I think it breaks down a bit when you ask how those ideals guide the policies they support. Something like how liberals might believe in freedom, equality, integrity, international cooperation (extreme euphemism), etc. but in practice they just accept what their ideological leaders tell them and react to what their enemies do.
It's a pretty easy ideology 95% of the time. You just find out what they're doing and immediately contradict it. I can see why it's popular.
Yeah good point. Starting to realize liberalism as a set of beliefs is just a barely-connected series of talking points and word-games placed in all the right conversations and institutions like pinball buffers, designed to keep you bouncing around a mental maze instead of just noticing the obvious truth in your payslips. They can only keep it so freakishly clean looking because theres billions of dollars and dozens of think tanks behind it frantically laying tracks ahead of themselves like Bugs Bunny
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I mean, isn't this what chuds do as well? Is it even ideology at that point, as opposed to just team sports?
They have a lot more "for" than "against". Being for country, for their own kind, for families, etc. Meanwhile when 5% of what you do is not knee-jerk contradicting the other side...
In terms of their ideals sure, but I think it breaks down a bit when you ask how those ideals guide the policies they support. Something like how liberals might believe in freedom, equality, integrity, international cooperation (extreme euphemism), etc. but in practice they just accept what their ideological leaders tell them and react to what their enemies do.