"Liberal" in the United States means something very different than it does in much of the rest of the world. Generally, most Americans are liberal within the context of other societies. Power to the people and other fun stuff like that.
The thing is that "liberal" has become more commonly associated with ... well, insanity. Take their popular topic - gender. For most of the sane world, there are men and there are women. I have a penis between my legs, I am a male, and therefor am a man... or at least a boy. There are certain things men are expected to do as it pertains to women. Some of this is cultural, some of this is biological. Men have a biological compulsion to be protective of women and to contest other males in front of women. Who washes the dishes at home is more cultural, and I was raised to just make sure the dishes were washed and it wasn't a gender-specific task.
"Liberals" have gone bat-shit insane and inverted the entire concept. They attempt to categorize everything as having a gender. They are obsessed with it. Washing the dishes is a woman's job. Vacuuming is a woman's job. Decorating the house is a woman's job. When men do these things, they are 'gender atypical' and need some kind of special label to apply to their unique pattern of behavior. I can't just be a man who takes care of the things that need to be done, or who happens to enjoy designing women's dresses (hypothetically, I have no fucking clue what I'm doing in that department) - I have to be some kind of gender atypical thing with a label unless I am some kind of raw expression of 'toxic masculinity' that eats nothing but steak and drags my wife by the hair into the house.
It's insane. They are insane and have a completely delusional view of the world. It is delicious to see them losing their minds.
And many people have been deceived by them. I work with a guy - known him since school. He was absolutely convinced that Trump was insane and going to nuke North Korea. I told him he was being dramatic and not to believe the nonsense on television and much of the internet.
After the whole North Korean thing, he and I were talking, and he was terrified that we were going to lose our jobs in the coming months because of the tariffs and trade wars. Order volume is up 35% over what we were scheduled for at the start of the year, and we are effectively scheduled over our factory's rated capacity. Demand is not slowing down and there are quite a few customers looking to buy from us still. In three years, our parent company is looking to have production capacity doubled and an overall hiring increase of 25% with supporting automation removing a lot of the redundant labor and shifting it to lower risk of injury duties.
We are literally 20 years behind the investment curve in China and were still competing with them at the point of sale. We are using raw manpower to do what has been automated for over a decade in most other industries. Even in China. Most of our operators on machines are younger than the machine. True - an auto press is an auto press, the die placed into it is largely what defines the part, but we are working with incredibly old equipment and processes when there exist end-to-end automated solutions that comprise primary/secondary press/form operations and weld. We have fifty people employed just to weld drawers that go in tool boxes (or more) when there's literally a machine that can take a coil of steel on one end and spit out welded drawers at the other.
I have digressed from the discussion topic, horribly.
