I've got 1 percent left on my phone, so at the last minute I'm saying hello, because I like y'all (even if I'm not a follower/convert).
But while I'm here, I'll take any flak you got -- I won't argue or go into lib disproving mode. I saw the leftist AMA the other day and left disappointed, so I just thought I'd take the temperature of the board a little, from my nonthreatening obvious interloper account.
(And if I don't respond, it's because my phone died and I'll be back later, charged.)
Frustrated, furious, anxious, excited, cool as a cucumber -- How are you?
I'm curious why anyone would choose to be a liberal? What attracts people to it?
Why do liberals highjack language, and squash differing opinions like they do?
No offense intended, but liberals/democrats look like an anarchist death cult that denies reality to push weird perversions onto the rest of us (100+ genders? Really?). Death and destruction are everywhere in the liberal agenda. Blacks killing each other at prodigious rates, abortion killing babies at astounding levels, etc. BLM/Antifa destroying towns and cities. Serious lack of personal accountability in some of those cultures.
I'm curious how someone can justify supporting any of that.
This is going to get into some personal opinions on media, so forgive me if I start relentlessly bullshitting/pontificating or whatnot. But with this:
I think the operative words are
Right-wing news portrays liberals as anarchist monsters, the same way left-wing news portrays conservatives as backwards rednecks. Rachel Maddow frames the news for her base, Laura Ingraham frames the news for hers.
And the picture of liberals/conservatives that spreads is the loudest, most offensive picture, because it's the easiest to encapsulate in a segment, an image, or a tweet, and have something snarky to say about it. The most colorful targets are the easiest targets -- that's the blue-haired SJWs, and the red-hat MAGAs.
The result is a sort of funhouse mirror representation of the other side. I've had trouble with it my whole life -- I grew up on the West Coast, knowing zero conservative folks, and my only experience with the political right was seeing it mocked on The Daily Show.
I didn't really choose to be a liberal, I just saw the dem party ideology lined up the nicest with my personal set of beliefs. I didn't choose to be a liberal any more than I chose to be a size 13 mens shoe.
What attracts people to it? Not sure, I haven't met a lot of liberal-converts. But what attracts anyone to any ideology? It just clicks, right?
I hate to play the "everybody does it" card, but I could make those exact same accusations about the conservative side, or any party. Hijacking language is good politics, and squashing differing opinions is a pretty handy way of maintaining power. Cynical, but hey, I'm a liberal.