In an article last month, Matt Taibbi, asked “where are the rest of the “card-carrying” liberals from the seventies, eighties, and nineties — people like me, who always reflexively opposed restrictions on speech?”

The short answer is, of course, Donald Trump.

But the longer answer is that they’ve been trending that way for a while. The term liberal original meant a capitalist whose sole concern was the treatment of property. Ultimately, the Industrial Revolution created a new power center apart from monarchy, and this new movement required an intellectual edifice, provided by Smith and Ricardo, hence liberalism, whose property trumped hereditary monarchy.

The modern version/definition of liberalism came about in the 1960’s and described baby-boomers who opposed the Vietnam War, supported Civil Rights, opposed censorship and propaganda, and were generally on the left. They were hippies.

But then the hippies became yuppies during Ronnie Raygun’s administration and it’s been downhill ever since. But Donald Trump really broke their brains. Liberals went into a sort of fugue state where hatred of the Orange Menace became their overriding concern. The national security state made good use of this hatred, utilizing the Russia-gate psy-op to transform liberals into the pro-censorship cold warriors, flying the Ukrainian flag that you see now. My working theory is that once the draft ended liberals could embrace war and empire since they and their children would not being coming back in body-bags. Only the dreaded MAGA infantry were now on the firing line thanks to an economic draft.

I realized that the transformation of modern day liberals into their long lost heirs is complete after watching the House hearing in which Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was testifying. What was bizarre was the Democratic representatives reaction throughout. They tried to shut down RFK. They moved to go to executive session so that the public could not hear the proceedings. The effort failed. Then they shouted over his words when they were questioning him. They wildly smeared him and defamed him. They even began with an attempt to block him from speaking at all, and 8 Democrats voted to support that. 

This was a hearing on censorship and they were trying to censor him. It could have been part of a modern version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, if Lewis Carroll were alive to write it today. 

While it’s important to despise liberal political and media institutions and the capitalist, imperialist, authoritarian ideology they promote, conservatives as represented by the Republican Party are no better, just the other side of the coin. 

That’s my senator–Mittens–being Mittens.

During a Senate hearing Wednesday, Mitt Romney argued against an amendment proposed by Rand Paul to make it illegal for government to use social media and big tech companies to censor the views of Americans.

In theory both mainstream political parties compete to make your life better than the other does so you’ll vote for them; in practice both parties openly oppress and impoverish you while focusing on murdering foreigners, and compete for your vote based on your feelings about artificial wedge issues. They’ve rigged the political currency they’d normally use to obtain votes in a way that guarantees the continuation of the status quo in every meaningful way, so the gears of the empire keep turning uninterrupted while the riff-raff argue about volatile cultural issues which don’t affect power, like “wokeness” and prayer in schools.

Not only are liberals, represented by the Democratic Party, turning into authoritarians but their whole “woke” agenda seems to really be alienating average Americans. The party has long since turned its back on its old blue-collar constituency, engaging instead with an urban ‘creative class’ in an exalted, world-shaping ‘social engineering’ project of moral redress. Indeed, the Democratic wokish ideology of historical redress is separating the U.S. into two nations living in one land. Divided not so much by ‘Red or Blue’, or class, but defined by irreconcilable ways of being and ways of living

The old categories: Left, Right, Democrat or GOP are being dissolved by a Cultural War that respects no categories, crossing the boundaries of class and party affiliation. Conservatives serve capital openly while liberals, who have reverted to the traditional definition of liberalism, engage in identity politics and “woke” ideology because it doesn’t threaten the sanctity of capital which is the only true value their main constituents–Wall Street–cares about.