I would add that classic liberal individuals need to recognize, if they don't already, that there are people out there who do not habitually prioritize other peoples' welfare. The illiberal crowd is not hesitant or ambivalent in aggressing against their critics and destroying them if possible. They are becoming increasingly violent recently, during the summer of 2020 and now, as male trans activists assault women who refuse to give them whatever they demand to have, including sex. They are not having long discussions, at least not in public, about the need to listen to perspectives other than one's own without attacking that person and brutally silencing them, ruin their careers and cause them to disappear like the nonconformists shunned by Anabaptist communities. The woke cultists are completely on their own side, not on anyone else's no matter what they say.
I believe that we really need to be completely on our side, and we need to see the woke cultists as seriously trying to prevent us from existing. I agree with you that we have to empower ourselves institutionally, and I also think that we need to empower ourselves emotionally to recognize that we are on the losing side of serious psychological warfare. In my opinion liberals need to stop acting like the cult activists are seeking a friendly conversation so as to express their authentic individual perspectives and try to understand ours.
I would add that classic liberal individuals need to recognize, if they don't already, that there are people out there who do not habitually prioritize other peoples' welfare. The illiberal crowd is not hesitant or ambivalent in aggressing against their critics and destroying them if possible. They are becoming increasingly violent recently, during the summer of 2020 and now, as male trans activists assault women who refuse to give them whatever they demand to have, including sex. They are not having long discussions, at least not in public, about the need to listen to perspectives other than one's own without attacking that person and brutally silencing them, ruin their careers and cause them to disappear like the nonconformists shunned by Anabaptist communities. The woke cultists are completely on their own side, not on anyone else's no matter what they say.
I believe that we really need to be completely on our side, and we need to see the woke cultists as seriously trying to prevent us from existing. I agree with you that we have to empower ourselves institutionally, and I also think that we need to empower ourselves emotionally to recognize that we are on the losing side of serious psychological warfare. In my opinion liberals need to stop acting like the cult activists are seeking a friendly conversation so as to express their authentic individual perspectives and try to understand ours.