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True that
But I do see libs who honestly believe that because an idea has popular support, that means it's populist and therefore bad
It's kind of weird
Elitism, I'm gonna guess. That, and believing in meritocracy because they got successful and can't handle thinking it was due to luck.
when half your worldview is "the adults in the room are making the hard choices sweaty" you start to think that the easy choices, even if exceedingly obviously good and correct, are somehow bad
literally vanguardism