What we still politely call “liberalism” today has zero to do with actual classical liberalism — you know, that old-fashioned nonsense about individual rights, free speech, reason, and keeping government off your back. No, this version is something far uglier: a smug, authoritarian cult run by the self-appointed smartest people in every room and far more dangerous and evil in a free society.
This week, a body-cam video from a university campus went viral. It captures exactly what this mutated ideology produces in human form: a person so detached from reality that basic interaction with police investigating a reported car theft devolves into repeated, aggressive meltdowns over pronouns and perceived misgendering.
The video isn’t a skit. It’s raw reality — one unhinged individual holding up law enforcement while demanding the world conform to their delusions in real time. And the disturbing part? This isn’t an isolated case. And, unless you have been living in a cave, we’ve all seen versions of it: on campuses, in public spaces, in corporate meetings, and in policy debates.
The Checklist of the Modern “Liberal”
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They deny observable reality when it conflicts with their ideology.
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All (Particularly the female) enjoy protecting predators and punishing law abiding normies.
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They consider virtue signaling an Olympic sport, yet never actually do anything virtuous.
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Their appetite for spending your money on causes that make them feel morally superior is insatiable.
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The weirder, more deviant, or more destructive and divisive the issue; the more ferociously they defend it.
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They dismiss history and treat opposing viewpoints as moral atrocities.
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With the unshakable confidence and the gusto of a cult leader, they peddle logical fallacies.
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They vote and think in lockstep — because nothing says “independent thinker” like the hive mind.
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They routinely cheer for forces that hate Western civilization.
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Basic economics and finance are mysteries to them.
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Avoiding real work while lecturing everyone else about “privilege” is an art form.
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They generally despise their own culture and country but somehow still demand to rule it.
At its rotten core, today’s liberalism is the unshakable conviction that a certain class of people — the enlightened, credentialed elite, wearing a “Be Kind” T-shirt — are simply superior: smarter, more moral, more evolved. Therefore, they have a sacred duty to run everyone else’s life. Your opinions, your biology, your bank account, your children — all subject to their divine judgment based on skin color, gender, and whatever “X” says is problematic this week.
This superiority complex requires constant validation and feeding. When reality refuses to comply, they never question their premises. Instead, they rewrite history, invent excuses, and attack anyone who notices the failure. Their egos cannot tolerate being wrong or questioned — so the world must be forced to bend and admit fault. Anyone who notices the emperor has no clothes becomes a pariah. See: AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and the rest of the permanent outrage brigade.
Rationalizing Evil in the Name of Compassion
From that poisoned root flows the habit of rationalizing anything. It doesn’t matter how destructive or perverse — so long as it serves the narrative or flatters the self-image. They will defend policies that endanger women and children, shield predators, erode borders, and punish dissent, all while calling it “compassion.” All because their fragile egos demand it.
Point out the human cost, and the mask slips. The “compassion” evaporates into incandescent rage that explodes at anyone who refuses to follow the script.
Case in point: Traditional liberalism, as we have known it, is being taken over by pretenders. Islamists in the United States today are not liberal in ANY sense of the word. Americans must understand that Islamists are operating from a completely different playbook. They will assume the role of any social belief system that will cloak their intentions until they can gain political advantage. THINK: Mamdani, as a Democrat Socialist. The examples across the globe are numerous and irrefutable.
This is why the same voices championing the “vulnerable” will cheer the release of men caught peering into women’s private spaces. They will cheer that the LGBT crowd is accepted into the fold so that the movement even has “Queers for Palestine” and Trans women in hijabs. The contradiction never registers. The ideology isn’t built on principles. It is built on the conviction that they alone get to decide who matters and who doesn’t. And, to what extent. Think Senator Warren and Senator Sanders! Regardless, the Islamists will behead them all when the time is right.
Personal Experience from the Classroom
I saw this dynamic of the mutant ideology (referenced earlier) play out repeatedly during my years teaching at a university. These individuals are often a menace in any shared space. Disruptive, volatile, prone to throwing objects, screaming obscenities at the top of their lungs, and creating fear.
On multiple occasions, during my tenure, I had to call campus police. Every single time the administration sided with the deranged and violent student. They were allowed to continue, often just shuffled to another class. Faculty and students were told to “ignore it” and move on, even when others were visibly shaken, filed complaints, and voiced the fact that they felt intimidated.
In one particularly dangerous episode, a student rushed the front of the classroom and threw something at me. Thankfully, I had a U.S. Army Ranger (John) as both a student and my TA that day. He stood up, firmly told the student to “Get out,” and physically positioned himself between the student and me. He literally blocked the student from getting to me.
Later, in the elevator on the way to my office with the Ranger at my side, he looked at me and said, “You do know nothing was going to happen to you, right?” I didn’t fully grasp it in the moment, but I’ve never forgotten that quiet assurance. I was calm and cool in the classroom, but as soon as he said that, it brought tears to my eyes. Thirteen years later, we’re still close and the moment is always present. Thank you, John — I’ll always be grateful you had my six.
The administration? Even with a letter from the Ranger, they still sided with the deranged student.
The Real Objective: Power
All the rainbow flags, climate hysteria, identity politics, and “equity” talk is just window dressing. The true goal is power: the power to dictate, power to punish, power to reshape society in their image, even if it requires burning down the existing order to the ground so they can rule over the ashes. Everything else is ancillary. Point of order here. The Islamists, posing as Democrat Socialists, feel exactly the same way.
This Progressive ideology is the Islamist’s Trojan Horse: To obtain political office here in America. And it’s working beautifully; across the country one city, one political office at a time. It is a strategic agenda that is being well played out.
This isn’t progress. It’s tyranny wearing the mask of enlightenment and plurality — a closed system of arrogant control. Remember it is never about compassion or principle. It’s them using power and the belief that only they deserve to rule while the rest of us obey. Think Mamdani! Think radical Islam.
It is pure and simple tyranny.
The sooner we stop pretending this is just another political disagreement and recognize it as a direct threat to individual freedom, basic sanity, and civilized society, the better off we will all be. Once you see it clearly, their behavior stops being confusing and starts looking inevitable.
While both parties have shifted to the left; if you think they have done so in equal amounts let me disabuse you of that notion. Today’s democrats haven’t really shifted anywhere. Rather, they are being devoured by the communists and Islamists on the radical left. They constantly downplay this phenomenon by using phrases like “we are a big tent,” “we are having healthy debates,” and “we welcome all comers to progressivism.” The truth is the Democrats are like bait fish being fed upon by a pod of Killer Whales.
Meanwhile The GOP are doing what they do best. On any given day Congressional Republicans exhibit equal amounts of incompetence, timorousness, and regular doses of anxiety and outright panic. This article focused on the Democrat Liberals because the GOP will take another article of its own.
Call it what it is. Resist it clearly. Defend reality unapologetically.
Because the alternative is letting the inmates run the asylum — and we’ve already seen where that leads.
I’ll call you soon John. Keep America safe while in uniform, and know this educator is always here for you and your family.
— ZeroDEIUSA (@zeroDEIUSA) July 23, 2026