No, Liberals Are Not Falling for Conspiracy Theories Just Like Conservatives Do

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1. NOT all people on the left are "liberals."

Political discussion has a serious vocabulary problem these days. And the errors are almost always inimical to liberals and the Democratic Party by lumping them with people who actually despise them.

Liberal is an inborn personality type that only later helps form "liberal" political positions.

Of course, such things are spectra, and some liberals not only do get very partisan and uncaring of truth but can evolve farther out until resemblance to typical liberalism is lost. But of all political personalities, generally speaking liberals are the one who care most about truth (and are most committed to democracy itself).

Again generally speaking, look farther left for those more vulnerable to the allure of news crafted just for them. We need better words than "radical" and "extremist" to describe them, but "liberal" is just plain wrong.