Memes

the problem is that today's western systems -- particularly the american one -- claim to embody them while systematically doing the opposite and each individual liberal who enables it.

take consent of the governed and political equality for example. there's overwhelming public support for healthcare, housing, and education as rights, yet those things are commodified for the rich to varying degrees and electoral systems are captured by an epstein oligarchy that keeps driving us into wars, so "consent" becomes choosing between pre-approved options.

also take equality before the law. the us prison industrial complex -- aka mass incarceration, for-profit prisons, racial disparities -- proves that the law applies very differently depending on your wealth and skin color; no one will doubt this, yet liberal societies accept it nonetheless as a "necessary evil". there's also examples outside the united states: france presents itself as a liberal society governed by the rule of law, yet its colonial system uses that very law to enforce low living standards on africans while denying them french citizenship -- laying bare the contradiction between its universalist ideals and its unjust, unequal reality.

and that's all before we consider the fact that international, western-backed genocides and ethnic cleansing continue despite widespread public opposition. That's not consent of the governed; that's ignoring it.

decades of propaganda from the epstein oligarchy and a culture that once rooted itself in those liberal policies have normalized these contradictions. So the issue isn't with liberty or equality as personal ideals -- it's with a political system that uses those words to shield illiberal outcomes; none of which is possible without liberals who still believe that those words are true despite reality being the opposite.