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In reply to the discussion: Go F*ck Yourselves: Bill Maher Goes Off on Liberal Purists Who Didnt Vote for Clinton [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)He's probably a left-ward leaning libertarian, progressive subtype. He holds many positions that liberals also do, but then I also support some goals radicals and libertarians claim belong to them exclusively. Maher's behavior and attitudes toward others is decidedly NOT liberal, though, and that's always a far better indicator than the labels people slap on themselves for respectability. In this case, he's busily covering his ass with criticisms of other radicals. Them, not me!
Everyone else should learn what Maher knows. Ultimately a good 90% of Sanders primary voters moved to Clinton, 80% happily enough to downright pleased to have two candidates they were happy with.
Of that other 10%-ish he's deliberately mislabeling (funny how MANY do that, a real indicator of where those people are coming from), few are liberals. Most were radicals, some reactionary conservatives, some libertarians who despise liberals.
Liberal and conservative, and probably libertarian, are BASIC PERSONALITY TYPES. We literally have different moral codes, different definitions of what is moral. We even process new information in different ways.
Maybe go read about liberal personality characteristics and the same for radicals, reactionaries and outright extremists, left and right, and see who he's really talking about.
Understand basic personality characteristics, and a big light will come on illuminating political attitudes.
One thing that will be learned is liberals are VERY DIFFERENT from all those others, far left, far right, mainstream conservatives, and libertarians right and left (most of whom are reactionary). Liberal thought dominated when our nation was founded and it dominates the Democratic Party now.