Especially how suddenly they will turn on said people. They can dismiss and dehumanize someone they brand as crazy without any remorse. Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, I guess.

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    Yes, and liberals are guilty of enabling conservatives to do so, by knee-capping the left and by “reaching across the aisle” to the right.

    outrage is directed at people who are much, much closer ideologically to them than the right.

    Fuck off. Liberals are to the right of Bush at this point. They only care about the status quo. If they cared about marginalized people they wouldn’t be whitewashing Azov Nazis and doing fuck all to stop the transphobic and misogynistic laws from being passed in America. Liberals can’t even call themselves anti-capitalists anymore. What have the Dems done for leftism? Are they trying to abolish landlords? Put forward a rent cap? Universal healthcare? Free education? Hell no, half of them are landlords themselves. To say they have more in common with the left than the right is laughable.

    Also, we mean liberal as in anyone who subscribes to neoliberal capitalism. That’s the Dems and the Conservatives. We do criticize conservatives too, but usually, we don’t even bother differentiating between the two major US parties because they’re so alike and both serve the interests of capitalism in the end.