but they definitely had a moment. lol

all this is true, and i want to add they’re also told that there are people that can fix things for them if they just believe in them and give them whatever they need to return to the “good old days”; in the united states; this is always a republican leader.

i think that this gives them hope for a brighter future and this hope makes them seem happier than others. they’re fooled into having faith that things will eventually get better, so long as they keep showing up to vote for their “protector” (and they VERY MUCH reliably do) or else someone else with take charge who will then let those evil lgbt, poor, immigrants, etc. destroy the country. in the united states this someone else is always a democratic leader.

liberals have to find their own source of hope and; in the united states; most place it upon a democratic leader, but liberals see their leader less as a protector and more like a stop-gap or as someone who is a lesser evil. it doesn’t matter than the democratic leader is virtually the same as the republican leader, it only matters that they’re more socially progressive than the republican leader; even if only by a hair.

this means that the regressive policies that both the democratic and republican leaders share invariably bites a person in the ass where it either reinforces a conservative’s faith in a protector or it disillusions a liberal. the liberal then, either rebuilds their broken sense of hope and invests it again into a new democratic leader or checks out of the system to become either a doomer and/or a non-voter.

that does next to nothing to narrow it down. lol

a liberal in the united states is a centrist in the rest of the world.

a leftist in the united states is a liberal in the rest of the world.

the united states is MUCH more conservative that the rest of the world

who does this sort of propaganda?

i need to get good pens like this. lol

leftist is pretty vague still because others are leftist too but each other’s mortal enemies like like anarchists and communists.

you have to study political theories to understand what they actually mean. most people calling themselves leftist in the united states are democrat-socialist because they don’t understand what socialism is due to not reading any sort of political theory.

it comes down to capitalism vs socialism.

progressive + capitalist = liberal

progressive + socialist = leftist