I'm longposting and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

It really is quite the coup, a cultural victory for liberalism and conservative values that there are a ton of people who think they understand politics because they plug into a few places, like the cable news giants and places like NYT, and the associated internet sphere. Like, they obviously don't have any of it in fact. If you try to discuss politics with any depth, setting aside any kind of marxist tendencies I have - just discussing politics, morality, philosophy - how unread everyone is. Like, the ignorance of the average liberal is profound. When they do read, it's the people that are allowed to be platformed on those media outlets, so nothing that doesn't already confirm their own worldview, and nothing of any intellectual substance - anything that might confer intellectual rigor is mysteriously absent (it's so those on the lower rungs economically are not empowered to realize liberals are taking them for a fucking ride).

There is a caste of them that know exactly what they are - they hold identities that the far right desires to exterminate, or they have loved ones in that category, but are otherwise deeply conservative people. They may or may not be in denial about that, but that denial doesn't change anything. Their empathy extends exactly as far as where their own self interest lies - but these aren't even the norm - the norm are people who think they can navigate politics with nothing but their own reckoning and the slurry of bad takes and platformed liberalism, along with the conditioning they're fed to distrust anything outside of that bubble - they're conditioned to stay in place and never actually challenge their own views - to take it for granted they've got it figured out already.

Liberals get uniquely gassed up by their media to feel like the smartest, biggest adult in the room, which is a position that, as a feature, does not require self reflection, introspection, or further education. You're already at the apex, the only thing left to do is force other people to receive your Maddowian Wisdom, and it would be funny if it wasn't actively choking off left-wing inroads into popular culture and (more importantly) political gains - electoral and otherwise.

The far right leans into messaging that weaponizes and even exalts ignorance - and where it has any intellectual investment - is spent similarly exalting their big boys - but seeing as this cohort is expressly an enemy, they're an uncomplicated problem to deal with. Liberalism, on the other hand, is an active menace to the left, and in tandem with infiltration/suppression, is the main weapon in preventing any meaningful political gains by the left.

It fucking sucks. But if you want to tear them down, you kind of need to start with the ways in which they make themselves intellectually unassailable. Most aren't open to it, but I've managed to radicalize more than a few - it just takes work and patience.