You can thank “anarcho-bidenist” radlibs for teaching them the word tankie.
Are liberals that out of touch? Lmao.
It’s objectively true that capitalism causes most of the challenges humanity faces today. Several bodies of science have all reached this conclusion. Why the fuck do they think we oppose it so strongly.
Also it’s not just “tankies” that know this.
They’re just shadowboxing a person that doesn’t exist. I saw this tiktok video the other day of someone presenting the left argument to vote for Jill Stein by arguing with himeslf and it started off reasonable enough but they went off in some “well if we get 5% of the vote blah blah blah” nonsense. They have no desire to actually learn.
Are liberals that out of touch?
Yes. Being out-of-touch is practically their main routine now. Like their own pitch: Project Liberal – they’re trying to present it like it’s some hot new thing and not the dogshit people have been living with for much of their lifetimes. It’s too hard to stomach that their politics have less and less to actually offer anyone.
And, it has to be noted: as much as the liberal worms refuse to attribute any harm to capitalism, they demand we all fall to our knees at its altar and praise capitalism for anything and everything good in life.
I think they are in touch. I think they really, really, really believe that this is the best of all possible worlds. They really think this is as good as it can be and change is not only undesirable, but impossible. Maybe that’s why they’re so terrified of Trump. Trump is change, Trump is an interruption of their West Wing fantasy. Politics can’t be crude or ugly. It must be stern faced compromise, eternal triangulation. You can’t have someone loud and crass come in shitting on the rugs and tearing down the curtains to reveal that all of their political drama is an ugly farce. It’s unthinkable.
