Libs again being completely out of touch with reality (and ableist).

People don’t become uneducated because they’re mentally defective, they become uneducated because schools get underfunded. People don’t just become drug addicts, they get addicted to drugs because of mental illness and the stress that comes from being poor. Religiosity also tends to decrease when people are exposed to more non-religious people and when the need for community is fulfilled by other things. Most people aren’t born with mental illness, they develop it because of their conditions.

Liberals do nothing to actually help these things then when people inevitably get stop coming to vote for candidates who will both screw them over and some people shift to the other side (which actually promises things, false fascist promises, but promises of change nonetheless) they blame the voters for being “intellectually impaired,” which conveniently isn’t a problem anyone can solve, just an unchanging fact to divert blame to and sigh over.

And when you point this out all they do is compare themselves to Republicans and say that they’re better than the alternative. I mean like c’mon, how ridiculous is this gonna get? It’s like a whole playbook on how to never do anything.

I suppose there’s no point in getting frustrated over it. I shouldn’t expect anything less; doing nothing is what liberals stand for. It is a playbook for doing nothing. They devote themselves first and foremost to the interests of capital while saying otherwise to deceive you, then when the inevitable crisis hits, they suppress the left and wear its face.

Asking them to be better really is a pointless task because the real liberals, not the people who vote for them, are lying when the say they care about your wellbeing. At best they only care about idea of individual liberty: the freedom for a homeless person to technically, hypothetically, under the law, be able to work anywhere and own private property. (Remember this is the core belief they actually stand for.) That was only progressive (and questionably so at that) back in feudalism when most people were serfs and when working for another lord or moving up classes was literally illegal. To be able to move beyond that, we have to look at our society / mode of production through a materialist lens or else solutions to systemic flaws will completely elude us and we will only be able to condescendingly complain, throwing useless moral aphorisms and platitudes against our problems.