But real, actual Liberals are still there and can be reason with - I spend part of each day discussing the issues with three of my six sisters - liberals - and my liberal neighbors and occasionally, newly-met strangers. We differ on abortion, gun control, BLM, DEI, and homosexuality and of course, President Trump but they are all open to reasoning once you get past the first emotional crust.
We are for the most part, all Americans and we all want freedom - except for the previously-mentioned Communists.
Some of you thirst for a shooting war - but only our enemies would win any new Civil War in our own country.
I would bet that none of our fellow Freepers who are using "moral absolutes" and pushing for that war ever experienced the real thing - or they'd know better.
The theft of the term liberal has been so successful that the American public equates boots on neck socialism to be liberal. Anybody still trying to fight to retain the definition of liberalism, as it used to mean, is fighting a losing cause and they are feeding the progressive liberals and making them stronger. In short, those fighting to retain the definition of liberalism is enabling the growth of progressivism and it will result in the US becoming a slave nation, just like every other socialist nation you can think of which includes my own.
I’m not pushing for war, but I do recognize that talking to Putin and possibly allowing him to retain some territory where there is Russian ethnics would have been the solution that prevented the elimination of the Ukranian people.