Enjoyed this article. As a conservative who has recently embraced the productive nature of the necessity of left and right influences for a productive society, (thanks Jordan Peterson), I appreciate the sane reasoning expressed here. When Dems return to reasonable dialog, their influence as a conscience to the nation will be constructive and not destructive.

TL..DR all. Got too all-encompassing of political spectrum analysis for an article.

I'm a classic liberal (of the Founding Fathers type) but definitely not hard right. I want social safety nets to be funded before Corporate welfare or government spending (shitbag Pelosi type.) ■

I want a strong as fuck military without ever needing to use it. I want what consenting people do in their private life to not be judged by government, but I also don't want to have their lifestyles thrown in my face. Be a faggot. Just don't faggot around in front of me. ■

I want all races treated fairly, although I do know for a fact that black Americans act out with more passion towards all things that trigger them. This, I believe, is the reason for law enforcement disproportionately responding to blacks. Both groups are culpable. I'm no fan of law enforcement. They are criminals also. ■

I want taxes spent on constantly updating infrastructure, besides the necessaries including the social programs I mentioned previously. I hate the Federal Reserve and the licentious way it handles our money supply. I want clean water and air, but I want every damn thing the earth has to be mined or harvested for human consumption. I don't give a fuck about people too dumb to understand true science. I'm done trying to argue with them. I prefer violent revolt over in defense of fair and equitable usage of resources over regulations designed to make mankind hear that it's an invader of earth. We own our slice of this fucking planet. ■

Lastly, I know men are more virtuous and ntelligent, and capable of governing than women are. Some women are capable but not most of them by any means. I really don't care if it is unequal in practice. Men are just better. Women are subservient to the wisdom of men, on the whole. ■

I get what this is saying, but no. The left don’t get there just deserts in this essay because it’s biased and the tone is leftist. Where is the “colourful” use of rhetoric to describe the lunatic far-left?
I saw reference to the word bigly, why?
Sanders is running to get elected, is there anything further from the centre? How about the word commie to offset bigly?
As long as the left has a Sanders, it’ll be an unmitigated disaster and Liberalism will just be a new word for socialism.
I understand this essay, but yes he is a liberal and that means UN oversight, borderless chaos, and an underlying ideology that questions sovereignty. That’s a big No from me and it confirms he’s just a Liberal.

It would be helpful and very enlightening for anyone who has not done so to do a little reading on "The Sokol Hoax".
Pretty much tells all you need to know about the intellectual and philosophical corruption of academia and the greater institutions of "higher learning".
Here is a little blurb from the Wiki article on "The Grievance Studies Affair" -

Boghossian, Lindsay, and Pluckrose wrote twenty articles that promoted deliberately absurd ideas or morally questionable acts and submitted them to various peer-reviewed journals. Although they had planned for the project to run until January 2019, the trio admitted the hoax in October 2018 after journalists from The Wall Street Journal revealed that Helen Wilson, the purported author of their published article in Gender, Place & Culture, did not exist. The hoax was then brought to wider attention by media outlets and their documentary of the project, which was uploaded to YouTube. By the time of the reveal, four of their 20 papers had been published, three had been accepted but not yet published, six had been rejected, and seven were still under review. One of the published papers had won special recognition.[4] These published articles included arguments that dogs engage in rape culture and that men could reduce their transphobia by anally penetrating themselves with sex toys, and a rewrite of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in feminist language.

Written by James A. Lindsay, one of the authors of the Grievance studies affair.