Tuesday 3 March 2020

A liberal centrist is someone who...

Most self-described liberals really are a nightmare. They've no interest in reality. No comprehension of how power works; of the system that we live under. And they're utterly arrogant. Does my head in. It's too upsetting to think they're all assholes, so I'm going with DEEPLY conditioned/ignorant! They are basically guilty of most things that they accuse the 'populist' left and right of being: close-minded, ignorant, cultish, Stalinist, aggressive, imperialist, ecocidal, racist...


A liberal is someone who will support a politician like Hillary Clinton because she is a woman, whilst completely ignoring the fact that she is a corrupt warmonger partly responsible for the deaths of literally millions of women.

A liberal is someone who will condemn the Russian government for homophobia, but will support western politicians who install and support far more homophobic regimes and movements all around the world - e.g. Syria, Honduras, Saudi Arabia, etc.

A liberal is someone who shouts 'conspiracy theory!', when they discover some information they don't like.

A liberal is someone who shouts 'Russia!', when they discover some information they don't like.

A liberal is someone who opposes Donald Trump for sexist comments, but not for waging an economic war on Venezuela that has killed thousands.

A liberal is someone who will profess to being anti-war, whilst supporting politicians who support imperialism.

A liberal is someone who thinks that a monopolized media with a long history of acting as a propaganda machine for western imperialism, that has people misinformed on pretty much every major issue, is reasonably balanced and fair, and all alternative media outlets are alt-right conspiracy sites.

A liberal is someone who will equate western wars that have killed millions, with Russia's defensive actions in Ukraine and Syria, following NATO expansion and wars, and/or with China's non-violent actions in Africa - where they have not sought to meddle in those countries governments, and are instead doing business (on mutually agreed terms?).

A liberal is someone who thinks it is completely unreasonable for Russia to react when NATO surrounds them, and who doesn't even consider what the US would do if Russia were to start installing puppet regimes in Mexico/Canada and building military bases there.

A liberal is someone who thinks a social democracy like they have in Finland is just as, or even more, dangerous than fascism, if it is proposed in the UK/US.

A liberal is someone who thinks billionaire elites, most of whom made their fortunes via ruthless self-interest, or inherited it, are mostly decent people who made their fortune doing good things for the world, and who deserve their powerful position over us.

A liberal is someone who ignores the root cause of our problems.

A liberal is someone who defends journalists who prop up the status quo, and attacks those, like Julian Assange, who’re trying to bring about peace and justice.

A liberal is someone who thinks only western powers should be allowed nuclear weapons, and that those countries targeted by western powers for regime change and exploitation, who desperately need to defend themselves, should not.

A liberal is someone who ignores the extreme injustice of neoliberal globalization and who votes to continue and expand it.

A liberal is someone who thinks the privatisation of our country, resulting in the destruction of the NHS, homelessness, ecocide, war, etc, is the natural way of things and best for progress.

A liberal is someone who thinks a system that empowers a few corporations to rule and requires ruthless competition to fight for scraps, and goes totally against the human instinct to love and cooperate, is most suited for human nature.

A liberal is someone who thinks humans are ruthless competitors, and so that is why capitalism is a suitable system for us, but at the same time, a liberal is someone who does not think that the most ruthless few who rise to the top, will conspire to do awful things to the rest of humanity and the planet.

A liberal is someone who thinks we have no choice but to accept a world in which a handful of people have all the power and money.

A liberal is someone who knows that power corrupts, yet supports greater and greater centralization of power.

A liberal is someone who thinks that the 'needs' of billionaires are as important as the needs of the homeless.

A liberal is someone who thinks we can continue allowing unaccountable corporations to plunder a finite planet for profit.

A liberal is someone who thinks we have freedom in the west, despite the fact that anyone who speaks out about all the awful things happening under the current system; who opposes neoliberalism and imperialism, is ignored at best, or smeared/prosecuted at worst, and banished from polite society. (Or bombed/economically sanctioned, if they're a dissenting country).

A liberal is someone who supports al Qaeda in Syria.

A liberal is someone who supports neo-Nazis in Ukraine.

A liberal is someone who supports fascists in Venezuela and Bolivia.

A liberal is someone who thinks that mass migration is a naturally occurring phenomenon, rather than generally a result of desperation, as people's lands are taken over by the corporations and banks that liberals support.

A liberal is someone who thinks a lifelong anti-racist, Jeremy Corbyn, is a racist, and who equates him with actual racist, British empire-loving Boris Johnson.

A liberal is someone who equates fascists with those who're calling for some redistribution of power and wealth to bring about peace and justice.

A liberal is someone who votes on domestic issues and doesn't care about all the death and destruction our governments/system wreak around the world.

A liberal is someone who thinks public services are unaffordable, but spending $trillions on war, and tax subsidies for oil companies, is.

A liberal is someone who will say that they care about the climate, but will reject the opportunity to vote for a politician with a long record of environmentalism, and instead vote for a party with a record of fracking and war.

A liberal is someone who opposes the imprisonment of journalists in Iran, but who says nothing about the persecution of journalists, and whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning, in the west, (or even supports the politicians who do that persecuting).

A liberal is someone who will condemn an exploited worker for not buying an expensive electric car, and will support a carbon tax on that person, but meanwhile will support an unbelievably destructive, plutocratic global economic system that involves an elite getting obscenely rich off the endless plunder of the planet - the same elite that is exploiting that worker.

A liberal is someone who is fine with social media corporations and virtual monopolies censoring dissent, often at behest of government.

A liberal is someone who judges those countries that revolt and try and resist capitalism, as dictatorial, whilst espousing that capitalism, with it's empowering of a few plutocrats and corporations, is very democratic.

A liberal is someone who thinks racism is just a result of far-right media, rather than a result of inequality/impoverishment brought on by neoliberal capitalism.

A liberal is someone who will condemn the far-right for their racist fear-mongering of migrants, but who won't address the root cause of that migration - wars and economic terrorism waged by western capitalists.

A liberal is someone who, after a leftist loses an election, will proclaim "see, nobody wants a left-wing government!", completely ignoring the fact that the entire system, including $billions of media propaganda, is rigged against the left.

A liberal is someone who scapegoats others (Russians, mainly) for the crimes of capitalism, just as the far-right does to migrants, Muslims, etc.

A liberal is someone who likes to think of themselves as an internationalist, but who could not give a shit about the evil deeds of their government outside their own borders. Black lives matter in the west, but not in Yemen, or any other country being attacked by the west.

A liberal is someone who will smear as 'Putin bots' those who (unlike liberals) actually oppose Trump's worst policies (militarism, Patriot Act, etc), because they don't go along with ridiculous conspiracy theories about Trump-Putin 'collusion'. 

A liberal is someone who will attack those who criticize Joe Biden, despite his long, documented record of being a thoroughly corrupt warmonger. 

A liberal is someone who doesn't want to accept reality and who lives in a matrix of corporate propaganda. 




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