Like, hear me out, Libs have always sucked but I remember in High School I was friends with a lot of self IDed capital L liberals, and while they had plenty of :brainworms: of their own, they were generally at least fairly anti-war, not anti-imperialist mind you but generally on the dove-ish side of the spectrum. Several of them attended anti-Iraq war protests and whatnot.

Now suddenly it seems like everyone to the right of Marxist-Leninism is a bloodthirsty hawk. Idk if that’s just social media astroturfing by lanyard types, polling stats seem to suggest the base of the Dem party is less interventionist than the party itself. But, idk, it’s weird how this demographic went from being, at the very least, skeptical of US foreign policy, now all of the sudden wants to nuke Moscow.

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The only reason they were ever anti-war in the first place is so that they could be on the opposite side of the argument from Republicans. Once the right decided that they had seen enough of their relatives with blown off limbs and these wars weren’t working, liberals switched gears smoothly and started accusing Republicans of being traitors in the pay of Russia. It’s wonderfully cathartic after the Cold War, when the right accused the Democrats of being insufficiently anti-communist.

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