Liberalism takes hold in the human mind as a defense mechanism against feeling helpless.

We’re definitely triggering to most libs. Probably to a degree far worse than conservatives.

Imagine you have this highly idealized worldview that paints politics as a grand battle between good and evil. You aren’t content with the state of things, but shit wouldn’t be so bad if more people would just . You want nothing more than for the right combination of candidates & slogans to appear to allow fixing things.

Then some fucking guy comes along and tells you the conditions in your perfect storm political scenario are entirely insufficient at achieving your goals. He says not only that your sole mechanism for exerting influence over the world is worthless, but also achieving your goals is dependent on subverting that mechanism entirely.

That must feel insanely uncomfortable. Virgin minds will ferociously resist accepting the helplessness without an alternative mechanism to provide that hope.

Hence why we must be Russians or crypto fash or something. Conceding any of our points means introducing those feelings of helplessness. It is simply safer for one’s ego to believe we’re incognito bad guys™ than accept that people who want the same ends don’t believe in the holy means.