Liberal Ideology is Designed to Polarize

 Brookline Massachusetts, public school, 1970's and 80's:

Liberal assumptions were in fact a social experiment. Experiments are supposed to be evaluated. 

The liberals experiment never was evaluated by its own adherents.

Some basic assumptions at that time:

 - Liberal and relativist, meaning that there is no Truth so you need to be an activist in order to create Truths, as Truth is what most people think.

- Sexual freedom was a given.

- ProChoice on abortion was a given.

- Affirmative Action, ie quotas was the only solution to racism, which is the worst problem in the world. (Well, that is racism against blacks is wrong, but no one gave a thought to the plight of poor whites, or what could be if Black Nationalism dominated.)

- Look for racism everywhere. 

- Assert yourself. Social situations are a place for you to impose, since you have to create Truths.

We could not question those basic assumptions. 

If you said, "wait, affirmative action may lower academic standards. How about a social experiment in which say have the New England colleges hold by Affirmative Action, and half just keep blind admissions according to academic standards, and see what works better over the next like 20 years?" Nope.

Or: "hey, the stable kids have monogamous, sober parents, what if sexual freedom leads to the inability to make committed relationships?"

Or: "Who really has the right to assert? Why can't situations be win-win?"

Or: "Didn't Martin Luther King Jr. say that black supremacy is just as bad as white supremacy?"

Or: "What are the side effects of abortion for a woman? When does the unborn feel?"

We did not simply refrain from asking these questions, the whole liberal ideology dictated that you never even dream of asking such questions, lest you be dubbed racist, phobic, sexually repressed, wanting to control women, etc.

We were not allowed to think. Yet we thought we were liberal, and therefore enlightened.

Some middle ground may have kept more people in the liberal fold and not led to the surprise election of Trump. But we could not moderate liberal stances, just widen the picture a bit, and so society polarized.

The interactions I had with liberals after I embraced traditional Judaism only confirmed how ideologically possessed liberals are. They treated me in a manner gruff, contemptuous, sarcastic, and provocative. They treated me in the same way that they feared they would be treated, in ways that would seal their fate as liberals for life, lest they be treated badly, excluded, maybe even unable to attain some positions.

I began to understand: liberal society is actually geared to polarize! To throw people out on the grounds of liberal claims that can get so absurd that you cannot stay in it unless you are directly benefiting say from a job, paid activism, or a social position.

Luckily I got out young. But if say a liberal professor in a college started to swing to the Right, she better keep it a secret, lest she face social shunning and even the loss of her position.

The solution for liberals: if you could no longer stand what you were being fed, yet you wonder at others who seem to hum along obliviously in the liberal world, it is because liberal ideology is designed to polarize.  It throws people out in order to be able to point fingers at the racists and phobes and what-have-you so they can have someone to loathe and thus be prodded to activism.

The solution for conservatives: be loving all the time. Be prepared for accepting as friends former liberals who are somewhat emotionally battered from their experience in the liberal world.