Whenever I try to talk politics (or ESPECIALLY world events) with Liberals, as soon as they determine that I am a leftist, they just get so fucking smug and have this sense of self-superiority about them. Exactly zero interest in having a good faith discussion. They are so incredibly dismissive and condescending.
Of course, no matter how much evidence that you provide, or how well you frame your arguments, you just get eye rolls and dismissed out of hand.
I am reminded of the Bernie campaigns when the liberal media pundits would behave with nothing more than sneering contempt at young people who just wanted fucking health care.
We know that they’re like this BUT WHY? Why are they all such smug shit stains? I stg it’s like their defining trait.
They like to think of themselves as the centrist adults in the room. They pride themselves on being the mature, rational ones who chose the realistic way to help the most people. They see republicans as violent, uneducated losers, and they see leftists as violent, unrealistic idealists.
In short, they’re smug because they think leftism is childish and naive.
There’s a poverty of imagination in liberalism, too. If this is the best existing system, then by extension any changes that can be made to improve it are minor tweaks, so we shouldn’t aspire to any more.
It’s also limiting in their sense of scale. You know the saying ‘if the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail’, then the liberal problem is ‘if the only tool you have is a nailclipper then a tapestry looks like a ribbon’. They can only think in incrementalism. The problems are then naturally reduced in their imagination into something that liberalism can solve.