This is also why liberals will always be on the backfoot compared to conservatives, and why there are inevitable lurches to the right. Liberals can't actually follow through. At best they can try to maintain what status quo exists now.
Liberals have to believe the system works as intended and that replacing cogs within it will lead to better outcomes. Conservatives instead see the system as a weapon to wield against their enemies and embrace the cruelty of the system in place. Liberals also embrace the cruelty, but pretend it's just a few aberrations that will correct over time.
It makes liberals always seem seedy and dishonest when they call for things like welfare or curtailing racism.
It's funny that no liberal ever makes the connection between the political "machine" and real machines. We're not still using mechanical adding machines with human "computers". Old machines are superseded by new and better ones. The American "machine" is at its core unchanged from 1776, just with a bunch of shit slapped on and duct-taped to it. It's like a Sega Mega Drive with a Mega CD, Mega CD Karaoke, 32X, and Sonic & Knuckles with Sonic 3 attached while China and Cuba are like DIY PCs with brand new components (running Arch btw). The Mega Drive monstrosity is limited by the core system and unable to progress beyond weird add-ons that don't do very much. Those add-ons are extremely costly in terms of wasted time and effort but the libs feel really good when they make a new one. No matter how many modifications are made to the Mega Drive, it's still functionally limited to the status quo but with discs and other weird cartridges that only with with the 32X.
Meanwhile, China is building 1x10^3578 km of high speed rail and Cuba makes it legal to disown your parents if they don't support your gender identity.
This is also why liberals will always be on the backfoot compared to conservatives, and why there are inevitable lurches to the right. Liberals can't actually follow through. At best they can try to maintain what status quo exists now.
Liberals have to believe the system works as intended and that replacing cogs within it will lead to better outcomes. Conservatives instead see the system as a weapon to wield against their enemies and embrace the cruelty of the system in place. Liberals also embrace the cruelty, but pretend it's just a few aberrations that will correct over time.
It makes liberals always seem seedy and dishonest when they call for things like welfare or curtailing racism.
It's funny that no liberal ever makes the connection between the political "machine" and real machines. We're not still using mechanical adding machines with human "computers". Old machines are superseded by new and better ones. The American "machine" is at its core unchanged from 1776, just with a bunch of shit slapped on and duct-taped to it. It's like a Sega Mega Drive with a Mega CD, Mega CD Karaoke, 32X, and Sonic & Knuckles with Sonic 3 attached while China and Cuba are like DIY PCs with brand new components (running Arch btw). The Mega Drive monstrosity is limited by the core system and unable to progress beyond weird add-ons that don't do very much. Those add-ons are extremely costly in terms of wasted time and effort but the libs feel really good when they make a new one. No matter how many modifications are made to the Mega Drive, it's still functionally limited to the status quo but with discs and other weird cartridges that only with with the 32X.
Meanwhile, China is building 1x10^3578 km of high speed rail and Cuba makes it legal to disown your parents if they don't support your gender identity.
The Mega Drive is awesome though, why are you insulting it like this? :angery:
I apologize to the Mega Drive for using it as an example in this manner :blob-on-fire: