As a liberal I’m saddened by the direction things are going. I see the vitriol on /pol/ has spilled over to more mainstream socials like X and it makes me upset. I know I will be largely unaffected, being a white guy in a nice neighborhood, but seeing your worldview crash and burn still hurts. I miss the time of joy and optimism for a united future. I really believed in it and liberalism as a whole. Part of me thinks that the state of the economy is largely to blame but I also think it’s naive to dismiss human nature and our tribal tendencies. Either way, I’ve mostly clocked out of politics and now see myself as a spectator for what I think will be hard times for many.