A key thing to understand about liberals is that they don’t actually care about the results of their policies. If they don’t work out as planned, it’s not their fault; it is due to some flaw in implementation, reality itself, or the human beings who (predictably) couldn’t make their utopian plans work.
“Real communism hasn’t been tried” is the classic example, although hardly the first. “Social Justice” and “Defund the Police” were supposed to reduce crime and improve society, but stupid humans didn’t cooperate. Decriminalizing drugs in Portland was supposed to make drug use and the streets safer, but the city instead turned into a shell of its former self and ground zero for the overdose epidemic.
They never learn because they refuse to acknowledge reality’s limits. The pretty words–even if they have to redefine them and twist their meanings into…
