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Let’s get some things straight since there seems to be some confusion on the issue,
re: liberals can’t be radicalized.
- Ideologically committed online liberals, like Twitter donuts and /r/neoliberal users: Near-impossible to radicalize, debate with them only for an audience if that, its not worth your energy.
- Well meaning but misguided liberals who have been mislead into believing that the Democrats (or whatever the Democrat-equivalent in their country is) are good and that they want the best for people: Completely reachable, it may still be a struggle because ideology poisoning but just do things like normalize socialism for them by being openly socialist and reach them on a level they care about (like pointing out the shitty things Kamala did to trans prisoners, for example, this worked for me with a lib recently).
- 3/4 of THIS VERY COMMUNITY are ex-liberals. Saying that liberals can’t be radicalized is demonstrably ridiculous. Particularly if you yourself are an ex-liberal, don’t let hatred for your past self cloud your judgement.
- Believing that the ideologically committed liberals outnumber the well meaning but misguided liberals is born of very online poisoning. You’ve spent too much time arguing in /r/politics or whatever. Most liberals fall into the later category.
[should i have made this an entire post?]