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That's been going on for some time now. I remember the years when I used to watch TYT, Secular Talk (because yes, I had my libshit years as well) and most if not all of their panel members described themselves as liberal. Around Obama's second election campaign they shifted to progressive. Turn to the years when I started to change my views (2015 -2016) and they were getting endeared to the term "democratic socialist". Now, in the current year, Jiimy Dore flat out calls himself socialist.I recently described this site to a progressive friend of mine using that exact label. I said "it's mostly late 90's/early 2000's liberals, plus some WN who keep ranting about Jews". I made the distinction as being non-woke, and one of the examples I used was "they support gay marriage but think there's only 2 genders".
He told me such people aren't liberals any more, that "liberalism has moved past that" and they can't be classified as "the left". You aren't officially alt-right neo-Nazis (yet), but you don't get to be liberals if you're the same liberal from 20 years ago.
That's only 1 anecdote, but it's the same sentiment I've seen on social media as well, which has a decidedly progressive bent. I've sperged about the difference between progressive vs liberal elsewhere, and it's off topic here, so I won't repeat it. But that split, and the resulting war, is being manifested in the Democratic primaries and in the liberal city strongholds right now.
If you're wondering why Antifa has been spray-painting "liberals get the bullet too" since 2017, that's why. You aren't liberals any more. The left's fellow-travelers are kicking you off the bus, in preparation to throw you under it. Portland rioters vs Ted Wheeler is a perfect example.
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