I grew up super liberal - parents, friends, neighbors - all super liberal.

There really is something to the redpill meme. Realizing how thoughtless and small-minded I was being on a particular issue. And then another. And then another. Like slowly waking up from a deep sleep.

And then to start talking with conservatives and find in them warmth, support, humor, all the things that were definitively liberal traits.

To realize that all that vitriol and condescension that was the only acceptable way for a righteous liberal to regard their moral and intellectual lessers was, really, just a petty facade. A means of dismissing anything that deviated from liberal dogma as by its nature unclean and therefore moot.

There are people I knew when I was younger that I cannot stand to be around anymore, and I suppose that's natural, but the reason I can't stand to be around these people is because they remind me of what I was - they think and act exactly the way I did and it is painful to hear, in their by-the-numbers rhetoric, the echos of a mindset that I have out grown and to which they are still, almost fanatically, committed.

I want to grab them by the shoulders and shake them awake.

I know there's nothing I can say, no volume at which I can shout that will snap them out of it. Liberalism can act as a safe, warm blanket, you cover yourself and the world becomes so reassuringly simple.

To paraphrase one of the more prominent liberals of our time; When your opponents are more concerned with being factually accurate than morally correct, you have no need to listen to them. You were morally correct before they started talking and there is nothing they can say to change that - what any detractors have to say is, truly, irrelevant.

Modern liberalism is a dogmatic, puritanical ideology premised on an abject disdain for the other and an ever intensifying adherence to their execrable inter-sectional caste system.

And yet for all the aggravation and the fatigue, I feel sorry for those people I knew when I was young. Those people who, for all their moral superiority and self satisfaction are blind to the world around them.

I see them getting increasingly desperate with every new lie, lies that they have to tell in order to justify their loyalty to this movement, but more importantly, lies that they must believe themselves. When these lies they tell themselves start to feel less viable, then you see the mask begin to slip.

It's a familiar sight by now, that escalation from smug self-satisfaction to deranged, infantile and aggressive, if ever someone persists in disproving their lies.

Increasingly the modern liberal is forced to behave like a dumb, vicious animal in order to maintain their strangle hold on what constitutes acceptable thought. And the normies are starting to notice.

Thing are going to get worse before they get better. Google, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, CNN, NBC, BBC, CBC, MSNBC, CBS, PBS, ABC, NYT, WaPo, The Guardian, Huffpo, Vox, Vice, Slate, Buzzfeed, 99 out of every 100 celebrities and a bottomless pit of emotionally unstable professional activists will be doing everything in their power to derail the democratic process, all under the impression that there are no rules for them because they are fighting literal Nazis. There is no hoax they will not perpetrate, no person they will not attack, no amount of violence they will not justify in the name of pure, clean liberalism.

And they'll lose. Because we are faster, smarter, tougher, funnier, more focused, because there are more of us every day and because nothing they do surprises us anymore. Keep your hands up and your chin down - this is gonna get ugly.