I find it so hard to understand the liberal viewpoint of things.
One minute the USA is fascist for overturning roe v wade and possible other amendments, the next minute the USA is the global defender of democracy. One minute the USA is facing the most social instability with gun violence, inflation, wage stagnation, over policing, the next minute we are the shining city on the hill that must set an example.
You’d think after Korea, Vietnam, and the war on terror we’d learn are lesson about exporting democracy and just mind our own business. But america is not in the business of learning lessons.
We care so much about Taiwanese independence but what of the indigenous people HERE? What of Hawaii? What of Puerto Rico?
Stay strong y’all. See through the contradictions and keep applying Marxism Leninism to the times! There is still hope yet!
Even the “good” seems pretty empty at this point. “Freedom of speech” unless you talk about alternatives to capitalism. “Democracy” for white landowners, later expanded to allow a certain set of white people to vote for a select set of candidates. The “liberal values” are empty and always secondary to capitalist values.
yeah ofc, the good was never really good to begin with for the most part, with the exception of liberal identity politics being at least some sort of progress even if it’s empty and generally not applicable to proletarians. as the empire’s power wanes and slides further and further backwards we’ll come to see how longstanding those gains even were in the first place.