Theoretically, liberalism is an ideology with a set of underlying principles and all of us could name some of the things liberals are SUPPOSED TO support. However, as a practical matter, liberalism has turned into something closer to a poorly thought-out religion or even a sort of social game that revolves around acquiring power and status with other liberals.
Anyone can name things liberals believe in, but if you start looking for the principles behind any position that they’re willing to continue to apply to anything that isn’t convenient for them, you’ll often come up empty-handed. What liberals claim to believe can change almost moment to moment, depending on the situation and the people involved.
Granted, politics is full of hypocrites and unethical people, but with liberals in good standing, you will universally find that what liberals say, support, and believe can change on a dime depending on which way they think the winds are shifting on the Left. The liberals who have ideological beliefs they aren’t willing to compromise on, like Joe Rogan, J.K. Rowling, RFK or Elon Musk can quickly find themselves labeled as a Nazi or even worse in liberal eyes, a TRUMP FAN.
Because of all this, liberal beliefs tend to be remarkably inconsistent, illogical, and contradictory. If you want to see some examples of this, here they are.
Liberals will…
* …oppose the death penalty for criminals convicted of even the most heinous crimes but are rabidly in favor of mothers murdering their own children via abortion at every opportunity.
* …tell you that you don’t need a gun, but also call for defunding the police, allowing rioters to run wild in their cities throughout 2020 and they’re surprisingly okay with murdering prominent conservative figures:
* …simultaneously tell you that it’s Republicans that are waging a “war against women” even though they rather famously can’t even tell you what a woman is. They also openly favor allowing male crossdressers to stay in battered women’s shelters, women’s prisons, women’s locker rooms, women’s bathrooms and compete in women’s sports.
* …leave their expensive homes, drive to the airport in an SUV, and fly overseas on a private jet to participate in a global warming conference where they tell everyone else the only way to save the planet is to dramatically cut back on our lifestyles.
* …send their kids to private school, then fight tooth and nail to try to prevent other parents from being able to have the same choice with their tax dollars.
* …tell you that black Americans living in a district governed entirely by Democrats are having hard lives because white Republicans who don’t live anywhere near them are racist.
* …do everything in their power to keep actual criminals out of jail, but when someone like Daniel Penny, Kyle Rittenhouse, or the McCloskeys defends themselves from criminals putting their lives in danger, liberals want them put in jail.
* …push pro-trans propaganda on kids, make it illegal for therapists to discourage a kid from being trans, and get schools to hide the fact that a kid is pretending to be another gender from a parent, then go, “leave the kids alone” if conservatives want them to stop doing those things.
* …tell you that manmade global warming is the important issue that there is and that electric cars are one of the keys to solving it, then they’ll turn right around and openly support a domestic terrorism campaign against the biggest electric car company in the world because the owner supported a Republican President.
* …tell you that Americans should be ashamed to live on “stolen land” taken from the Indians. Meanwhile, the amount of land liberals control that has been given back to the Indians? It’s zero.
* …demand that mainstream media outlets slavishly promote the liberal line on every subject and attack Republicans at every opportunity, then they will scratch their head and wonder why the public doesn’t believe the mainstream media is unbiased.
* …tell you that college loans are so worthless that the government should pay for them but will also insist that the government continue to hand out more college loans.
* …obsess over racism and white supremacy, but meanwhile, they’ve embraced the same kind of, “nothing you can do as a person matters as much as your race” thinking that those people have.
* …tell you that they believe in science, except, you know, when it comes to issues involving being able to change sex at will or when it comes to preventing COVID with masks.
* …get offended if you say they’re unpatriotic, then they’ll rundown America at every opportunity and burn the American flag.
* …claim to be horribly upset by school shootings, but then they’ll try to block everything designed to reduce school shootings other than taking guns from law-abiding gun owners, which seems highly unlikely to ever happen.
* …openly talk about how great it will be when white Americans are no longer a majority in America, but then they’ll claim that anyone who points out laws supported by liberals is causing it is engaged in some kind of white supremacist conspiracy theory.
* …go on and on about tolerance while being so incredibly intolerant of different views that they even push other liberals who disagree with them about one or two things out of their own party.
* …tell you how awful the rich are even if they have 3 homes, millions in the bank, and rake in big bucks from billionaires at fundraisers before every election.
* …go on and on about affordable housing and income inequality, but where are those things the worst in America? In cities that are under the complete control of liberal Democrats.
* …treat government like it’s the answer to every problem, but for the most part, they also don’t care if government programs are cost-efficient, effective, or work at all. Liberals will defend a wildly expensive, completely dysfunctional government program to the death if it has a compassionate-sounding name or employs a lot of liberals.
* …claim that conservative criticism of liberal groups or even just telling people what the Left says will lead to “stochastic terrorism.” Meanwhile, left-wing smearing of cops created riots in liberal cities all across America, two assassination attempts against Donald Trump, and a domestic terrorism campaign against Tesla. Their reaction to that? Shrug. Those aren’t liberals, so who cares?
* …will bash rich people as greedy, sneer at Christians, and hold straight, white men in disdain, then claim the only reason any of those people could possibly vote against them is because they must be Nazis.
* …tell you that Nazis deserve to be punched, then turn around and claim that pretty much everyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi.
* …tell you Trump is a despot with totalitarian tendencies and then turn around and support censorship, a rigidly controlled “free” press, political violence aimed at their enemies, and a captured government that pursues their aims whether they’re technically in charge of it or not.
Good examples, because there are so many instances of those things happening around us all the time. It's why I have so much trouble with the notion that left leaning people have emotional maturity, intelligence, and a functioning moral compass. Has to be an irrational cult, and it saddens me to see so many of my neighbors on board that ship of fools... I hope at least some of them figure out what the truth is before it's too late.
"…tell you that they believe in science, except, you know, when it comes to issues involving being able to change sex at will or when it comes to preventing COVID with masks."
...or and that the organism growing in a pregnant woman's womb is not a human life (despite that it is a life with human DNA.*
*The science ==> When more than 5,500 biologists were asked when human life begins, 96% affirmed life begins at fertilization. (Jacobs, S.A., The Scientific Consensus on When a Human’s Life Begins, Issues in Law & Medicine, Volume 36, Number 2, 2021.)
& lest anyone think these biologists were right-wing pro-lifers: The sample predominantly self-ID'd as pro-choice (62%), liberal (63%), socialist (54%), and Democrat (66%); of the surveyed biologists, 57% were female.