I think the main issue today is not so much apathy or busyness, but outright hostility to the liberal project among huge swaths of the electorate.

Given that, and the difficulties of reaching them in a post-truth era, it seems to me that to save liberalism some safeguarding is necessary.

That is true.

At the same time, the partisan in me likes being the party where all the intellectuals have fled to.

We could just let conservatism keep bathing in stupidity instead.

They also just hate America and want to see it crumble. Can't forget that.

One "becomes Republican" by voting Republican, not by whatever metric you're using.

It confuses me that people constantly beg and plead for Democrats that fight as hard as Republicans, and then when people get just that they recoil.

"Love your enemy" is BS, in my opinion. I never said anything about murder, but I'm not interested in being nice or sympathetic to enemies.

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In a culture war its actually pretty important to harness disdain for your opponents I would argue.

I disagree, I'll happily use those tools tbh I'm not batman I want to win

Based!

Also consider becoming an obnoxious Abundance guy. We are the best after all.

From one minority techie to another i definitely feel your post.

Just wanna say that there are still places for us, and where there aren't we will build them.