>>- The Liberal side will . . . fight for their own personal short-term gain at the end of each battle (hamper their Statist leaders’ goals)
If you haven’t read Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, do so. It’s a quick read, very much on topic with this thread, and he very much lives what you are talking about in the quote copied above. Almost died from it, as a matter of fact.
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