I’ve meant to write this post for a while, but I feel like people will misunderstand and think I’m saying something I’m not. Sometimes I feel like everyone sees the main problems with America’s liberals, conservatives, and libertarians. Others I feel like I’m the only one.

In fairness, each group does what the others do, but each specializes in the following:

Does anyone else see that the biggest problems with America’s liberals are 1) that they create and grow hierarchies based on race, sex, gender, and ethnicity, creating contexts giving them privilege over others, then 2) judge people on these characteristics and lord over them, 3) their policies increase poverty, and 4) they act as if they don’t care about people less fortunate.

Does anyone else see that the biggest problems with America’s conservatives (and libertarians) are 1) that they grow the government in size, power, and reach into the lives and businesses of citizens, 2) distort and coerce markets, making them less free, 3) increase the size and power of government bureaucrats and bureaucracies, and 4) undermine family and traditional values?

I feel like each side is blind to what they’re actually doing and how what they’re doing opposes what they say, especially about themselves. How does everyone not see these patterns?

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