Not that dimwitted dullards like ramrosuer have any interest in facts or nuance, but one of the wildest things to me ever since I left the Republican Party and started voting Democratic is how the right wing media ecosystem has successfully convinced the entire right wing in America that the word "liberal" is synonymous with "extreme far left", when the reality is that in doing so, liberals are constantly getting lumped in with people who are far more different than Democrats, than Democrats are from Republicans.
Liberals have far more in common with conservatives than they do with the far left- the people who believe in, say, the total abolition of a capitalistic society, or the abolition of police, or whatever. In fact, I've seen far more Democrats disavow the positions of people on the extreme far left- which are a very small minority in and of themselves- than I've seen Democrats disavow the positions of people on the right side of the ideological spectrum.
But because Fox News sniffs out far left, rather neurotic, and very fringe opinions online and presents it to Republicans as the face of the Democratic Party, they've created an environment in which smooth-brained dingbats like ramrouser can see something from a 30 second clip by someone called "Libs of TikTok" and believe that every single person who is liberal hates attractive women and muscle cars. If only Republicans had to answer for literally everything that "HitleriIsMyHombre1488" says on 4chan the same way that Democrats have to answer for everything uttered on TikTok by "blue haired fat girls with nose rings and pronouns"!
I'm only "liberal" now because I believe in things like "rule of law applies to everyone" and "presidents are not kings" and "science and vaccines are good" and "hurricanes are caused by low barometric pressure and not by gay marriage" and things of that nature. Most of my policy positions would be considered solidly right wing by the rest of the developed world, but here in the good ol' US of A, Fox News and right wing media has convinced its idiot consumers that I wear Karl Marx underwear beneath my Mao Zedong pajamas.
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