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They think the "marketplace of ideas" is a really smart idea that produces smart solutions and that by believing in the marketplace of ideas they are smart (because that's what a smart person would believe, obviously)
when the vast majority of libs recede into full philosophical idealism again, materialists are going to seem like they have superpowers for actually seeing the world as it is
Libs becoming COVID deniers probably means they'll lose their grip on reality sooner than we think. People who are still masking up are gonna seem like geniuses with their non-fogges brains.
Have they not been full ass philosophical idealists for the past several decades?
i think many at least pretend to be realists.