Some of you don't bother to check definitions.

The myth of the "moderate conservative" that can be persuaded to vote Dem.

Lather.Rinse.Repeat.

SMDH.

The misunderstanding of so many commenters here would be downright comical if it weren't so sad.

Here's someone who gets it. A journalist. A truth-teller on Palestine (how I initially became aware of him).

People calling out neoliberals are Cassandras to liberals, who just want to exercise their privilege to be able to go back to sleep. The hagiography is most intense, as long as the person had a 'D' next to their name. Hence, Obama can commit the same war crimes as Bush, but his are excused, if not ignored or denied outright.

Pull your heads out, folks. It's cutting off your oxygen supply.

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"Liberals and leftists identify many of the same problems. Only leftists understand that real solutions require serious pressure on the ruling elites. The credible threat of force -- for example, a peaceful protest that could turn violent -- may be enough to force reforms. But reforms always get rolled back after the left stops watching. Ultimately, the rulers will have to be removed via revolution, a process that requires violence.

Liberals do not demand change; they ask nicely. Because they oppose violence and credible threats of violence, they tacitly oppose fundamental change in the existing structure of politics and society. Unlike leftists, they are unwilling to risk their petty privileges in order to obtain the reforms they claim to crave. So, when push comes to shove, liberals will ultimately sell out their radical allies to the powers that be. And they will run away at the first sign of state oppression.

If you can't trust your ally, they are no ally at all."

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Liberals ARE leftists, moron, and leftists are liberals.
What is UP with some people? Jeez...

Liberals do not hate leftists. They dislike irrational, impulsive people and people who have blind commitment to total system ideology. (whether that ideology be on the right or left.

Liberals hate leftists. Hate them, hate them, hate them.
They don’t often admit it of course. Admitting you hate those to your left at least as much as you hate those to your right would cause a lot of cognitive dissonance for those who think of themselves as being on the left, and it would weaken their arguments considerably.

Leftists are liberals. This article makes zero sense...

After reading the article a second time, I would also say that religious fundies hate atheists for the same types of reasons, namely that we pose a cognitive dissonance threat to them that maybe everything they have ever been taught and believe is a lie. Also, they resent our thinking that we are or might be just as morally good and ethical as them, maybe more so. It bugs them that we might be just as deserving of heaven as them, if that existed and were solely based on works and morality. For that matter, economic conservatives hate leftists because we expose them as the selfish greedheads they are.

I would add that liberals who hate leftists pointing out how corrupt the Dem party is, esp. its leaders, are not so much upset to be told the system is not working for them. They are upset because the leftists truthfully and correctly point out that the system is not working for anyone who is living at less than the upper-middle class. The liberals usually are at that level on the economic ladder and don't like being told they might be sellouts or at best indifferent to the economic hardships and struggles of the lower classes than them.

Hence, the inspiration for the old Phil Ochs song, mainly that the liberals feel like simply saying they are a liberal and that they support all the lower class and identity politics struggles out to be enough for them to feel righteously smug and comfortable that they are good people who are always on the right side, but sorry, to us socialists and progressives that's not enough. Being on the right side of the class war is by far the most important area in order to call yourself one of the good guys. You have to be willing to invest yourself in real equality by supporting a fair economy, which will never happen without socialist leaders and socialist policies. Neoliberalism won't ever cut it in bringing that about.

Send Bernie to exile and find a better Messiah