>>24690156
An ideology's true nature is what it results in, not what its proponents fantasise about. Places like California represent liberalism unrestrained. Ben Shaprio may argue that "oh that isn't real capitalism, that is corporatism" or whatever but capitalism across the world has led us to our current economy and society, ergo, that is capitalism. The results of North Korean style Communism is the true manifestations of that ideology, not the farmer paradise the propaganda books describe.
If we are to detach "your liberalism" from what has transpired in the most liberal voting places, then it exists as a functionally useless term that doesn't matter, like in a sci fi book, and thus should not be used in a discussion about real world politics.