On Monday, I was a liberal. On Wednesday, I became a leftist. I will not let my country slide into fascism without fighting back. I have a 73 year old mom who's married to a woman. That woman is one of the most important people in my life. I'm 51 and have known her since I was 19. If anyone comes for them, there will be bloodshed.
I agree that women are not going back "into the bottle" as it were. There definitely are females out there opposed to women's rights (especially reproductive and career rights). They will be opposed by a greater number of women + the men who want women to meaningfully participate in society. A nation that refuses to take women seriously ends up cutting their potential leadership, ideas, production, and so on basically in half. Already we see women planning how they are going to resist misogynistic policies, and maybe they don't need my support as a Canadian man but they've got it.
Once more into the breach
The US uses liberal in a really odd way. To me a liberal is a laissez-faire economic liberal. The complete opposite of the actual left which is about class struggle and wealth inequality. The left can care about the environment and DEI but if that is all they care about then they aren't the left, their something else.
And for me social liberalism is individual freedom which is just regular social progress. Only a complete fuckwit would want to turn back time and reduce peoples rights to peacefully live their lives, whatever economic system turns them on. I hate the autocrats, right, left or center. They are all small minded people who will line up to put our fates in the hands of some generalisimo. Fuck that mentality.
