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why is the center left such a staunch defender of the status quo in America? you guys ever come across these types?

>only racism, sexism, and transphobia should be addressed
>all discussions of international finance, industrialization of the food supply/medicine & health care, break up of the family, national inequality (non-race specific,) inflation, etc..are not on the table.

If you understand Liberalism it makes sense, I understand that as a macrocosm. There's this eternal quest to free oneself from all obligations. The government handles the civil rights part, and private business the biological/social/geographical part, however I'm getting a strong closed-mindedness from just this part of the spectrum. Everything outside their government-business paradigm is joe rogan crack pot theory.

Do they officially "own" the system now and feel like they have to defend it? Can the state that allows these things to happen do no wrong? I don't get it.