Today I learned liberals don’t care about others. They don’t care about their suffering, and they’ll fight to keep the oppressive system running because they want to stay in their comfort.

I asked my cousin, “if you can have anything you want with the snap of your fingers, what would you have?”

She replied, money, tons of money. Total comfort, and no worries.

I replied, super human abilities and an adventurous life. I explained to her that having tons of money and total comfort eventually gets boring because when you finish accomplishing all the things you can accomplish with money, it’s gonna get boring. Then she starts to go on her anti-revolution rant and how she doesn’t know what to do for change and can’t find herself doing anything to support any revolution. She talks about how there’s no point in doing a revolution cause even if it succeeds, you’re gonna die anyways.

She proceeded to explain that she wants tons of money because it fixes all problems in her life. I told her, “It fixes all of the problems in the capitalist system, not all of your problems revolve around the capitalist system.”

I told her, “what if the problems you have isn’t fixable by money because of the system you live under? Reform isn’t gonna help your motivation for black and LGBTQ rights.”

She says, “move to another country.”

Then I asked her, “what if those problems persist in other capitalist countries?” she replied with the same answer.

I asked her, “what if your personality changes and your interests change, and all of a sudden you don’t fit the status quo?”

She says “I’m already not fit to the status quo, I’m black, I’m LGBTQ, and I’m super liberal!”

Then I had to explain to her what liberalism is, and that progressive liberalism is time wasting. It’s just reform reform reform until all of it gets reversed by your enemy some day. I also ask her, “why not try to change the system so you’re apart of this 'status quo?” Then she replies “there’s nothing I can do about it.”

She then does the “How do you not like capitalism if you live in it?” argument.

In the conversation, I also ask her, “what about the third world countries that are taken over by capitalism?” She’s like “What that got to do with me? I’m not gonna care about a country that does stupid stuff with the money given to them!”

She even had the audacity to say “I’ll have to kill you if you throw a revolution. I’ll be sending a hitman for you. Because I don’t want someone to ruin the world I’m in.”

People like this, there’s no coming back for them. Comrades, what would you do with someone like this? Do we shape a new system that keeps them from complaining and continue living their ‘comfortable’ lives? I always wonder about people like this.