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>WE'RE NOT LEFTISTS, WE'RE LIBERALS
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Social democratic parties and "progressives" in the US have always been crypto-socialists LARPing as liberals, presenting their ideas as increasing liberty while increasingly transferring power to the state. It is the same modus operandi as the communists promising to redistribute land to the peasants who instead find themselves stuck in a "collective farm" run by a party official who lies about productivity and then has to empty the granaries to meet the new inflated quota leaving them to starve, ironically exploiting them even more than the previous landlords.