Liberals do not believe this. Conservatives believe this.
Liberals believe that housing should be "affordable" instead of a human right.
Liberals would devise a scheme where developers and landlords would be incentivized to provide below-market-rate-subsidized-housing-via-tax-breaks-and-blah-blah-blah-incomprehensible-technocratic-bullshit
Conservatives would just repurpose snow-plows to scoop up the poors and dump them directly into a sewage treatment center.
The vast majority of the people you speak to are not going to appreciate your intricate understanding of the taxonomies within laissez faire capitalist societies. If anything, this commitment to scholastic pedantry is going to turn off more people than it wins over, if not just confuse them outright. If you want to speak to the proletariat, you should try talking like them. This would require you to speak to your audience in terms they understand while making an effort to understand the distinctions between political affiliations as they are widely held. Go up to some shit-heel trump voter and tell him "well ackshually sir, you are a liberal in the traditional sense of the word" and see how far that gets you.
the majority of the leftists you know started off as liberals. writing them off as your enemy when they could be won over is not a very strategic way of building solidarity. the conservatives, on the other hand, are likely well on their way to supporting fascism as it is currently manifesting itself. it's important to identify these distinctions. If the only appeal to leftism for you is the ability it provides you to hate liberals, then you need to reexamine what brought you to the left to begin with.
My point wasn't that they're all completely unreachable, but rather that liberals have much more in common with conservatives than they would ever care to admit.
Liberals actually believe this
Liberals do not believe this. Conservatives believe this.
Liberals believe that housing should be "affordable" instead of a human right.
Liberals would devise a scheme where developers and landlords would be incentivized to provide below-market-rate-subsidized-housing-via-tax-breaks-and-blah-blah-blah-incomprehensible-technocratic-bullshit
Conservatives would just repurpose snow-plows to scoop up the poors and dump them directly into a sewage treatment center.
"Conservatives" are a subset of liberal, specifically a more extreme and somehow even more racist and chauvinist one.
The vast majority of the people you speak to are not going to appreciate your intricate understanding of the taxonomies within laissez faire capitalist societies. If anything, this commitment to scholastic pedantry is going to turn off more people than it wins over, if not just confuse them outright. If you want to speak to the proletariat, you should try talking like them. This would require you to speak to your audience in terms they understand while making an effort to understand the distinctions between political affiliations as they are widely held. Go up to some shit-heel trump voter and tell him "well ackshually sir, you are a liberal in the traditional sense of the word" and see how far that gets you.
Conservatives are just liberals after the mask comes off.
the majority of the leftists you know started off as liberals. writing them off as your enemy when they could be won over is not a very strategic way of building solidarity. the conservatives, on the other hand, are likely well on their way to supporting fascism as it is currently manifesting itself. it's important to identify these distinctions. If the only appeal to leftism for you is the ability it provides you to hate liberals, then you need to reexamine what brought you to the left to begin with.
My point wasn't that they're all completely unreachable, but rather that liberals have much more in common with conservatives than they would ever care to admit.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
It's the same picture.