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you'll have to be more specific. Are you talking about how people here dismiss Democrats or western liberals in general? Because we don't trust them. It's true that communists have a history of making coalitions with their liberals. Like the current dominant party in Mexico, MORENA, is a coalition between communists, liberals, social democrats, etc. Lenin's party would also make concessions with their liberals when it came to making electoral advancements.
But that's not our situation at all and we're distrustful of liberals. Most of us are from western countries where liberal parties exist to betray us or do nothing, that's really it. We haven't experienced much solidarity at all with the liberals in our countries/areas, we've only experienced betrayal and failure. We have no built up trust. I've personally worked with some liberals in my area, namely the Sierra Club and AFL-CIO. But it was just that. Work, stay on task, because I know once the task drifts from our common goals, they'll go back to being useless liberals. I'm still really salty about how the 2020 anti-cop protests fizzled out.