I’ve come to the following conclusion about what you must be to be “a liberal”. Three things:
- Easily mislead by false statistics because they play to your emotions
- Selfish, solutions always fall at the feet of somebody else, either the “rich” or the “government” but never the liberal proposing the solution.
- An atheist. This is the one that leads to all kinds of confusion, including that “Christianity is as bad as Islam”.
Put all three together and you get somebody that means well but is completely disconnected with reality and what works....a gullible bleeding heart that doesn’t understand economics and is devoid of contrasting various ethics systems. It’s a nightmare.
They have nothing to do with classic liberalism, I refuse to call them “liberals”. They are “progressives” but considering their positions I can only label them “regressives” because that’s, ultimately, where their policies would take us. They reject everything that has been woven into our fabric of society and enabled us to reach where we are (which is Judeo-Christian ethics).
I've put a lot of thought into that too, and you pretty much nailed it.
The one explanation I'd differ with is "Selfish". Rest assured, they're some of the most selfish people in the world, but I believe it's because they're ready to overlook all the suffering and inequity they cause because the feeling of being virtuous (and thought of as virtuous) is more important than anything else in the world.
You give them far too much. They do not mean well.
They want to be in charge.