I am sickened by what has become of modern liberalism. I understand the leftist impulse to want to save lives. But they are creating bigger problems with these lockdowns for the working class, the poor, the young. People that are supposed to be their base. My NDP-supporting friend who ghosted me for supporting lockdowns and me disliking Biden, he works from home and he's a 53 year old bald gay manlet. Sheltering in place is not a big deal for him. He's had plenty of dick in his life and he's getting old so for him it's not a big deal to avoid hooking up with dudes until a vaccine (yes he told me he doesn't plan on dating until a vaccine). He's blind to the realities of what stay at home orders mean for a lot of people in society. If you feel like your liberties are being infringed upon by not being allowed to go outside and live your life, you are shamed as being selfish by the left.

I was a leftist when I thought it was about empowering the poor. But it's really about destroying the individual in the name of some collectivist goal. I understand corral the individual to some extent like say taxing the wealthy to ensure that the homeless are housed, that we have more affordable housing, that jobs return to Canada, the drug addicted are put in rehab, that we have a robust health care system, etc. But it is literally fucking illegal here in Peel for me to go fuck my gf because we don't live with each other. That is very different than paying taxes. And our taxes are squandered on a bunch of bullshit anyways so I agree with the statement that taxation is theft as things stand now. If our taxes were spent wisely, I wouldn't say taxation is theft. That's why I consider myself left-libertarian more than right-libertarian.

I am sickened by what has become of modern liberalism. I understand the leftist impulse to want to save lives. But they are creating bigger problems with these lockdowns for the working class, the poor, the young. People that are supposed to be their base. My NDP-supporting friend who ghosted me for supporting lockdowns and me disliking Biden, he works from home and he's a 53 year old bald gay manlet. Sheltering in place is not a big deal for him. He's had plenty of dick in his life and he's getting old so for him it's not a big deal to avoid hooking up with dudes until a vaccine (yes he told me he doesn't plan on dating until a vaccine). He's blind to the realities of what stay at home orders mean for a lot of people in society.