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you're too weak and scared to stand up to the real threat to your freedom, capitalism.

I don't think that's what they're scared of, they don't see capitalism as a threat to their freedom, even if that might be the case on a long enough timeline. what they're scared of is introspecting and investigating their beliefs, from where their thoughts and opinions originate, to what the real material outcomes would result from them. you might notice that their a lot of their beliefs are based on faulty presumptions (for example, the idea that black americans live in luxury off welfare and social programs) but were you to correct them with the reality (the extent to which poor people of any race benefit from welfare is exaggerated and restricted through things like means testing) they will either deflect by nitpicking about sources and figures or simply stay quiet about it and try to change the topic of conversation.

if they were to do some introspection, it would become obvious that what they want goes against the liberal ideals that have dominated the west since post-WWII like "equality of opportunity" and "all men (people) are created equal", and that if they had to openly confront this, they'd realize their ideology is based on being a selfish asshole, which would at best (for them) invite social ostracism from other people recognizing them for the assholes they are, and at worst cause a whole identity crisis from seeing the contradictions in their ideology.