The liberal reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre was one of the major things that turned me away from that suite of interlinked ideologies. Their gleeful reaction and equivocation of satirical cartoons with outright slaughter — some even saying that the cartoons were worse than murder — forced me to examine what and who they really were. And if I wanted to be part of that.

Turns out, I did not. Though I still consider myself a liberal in some sense, I think a lot of their goals are nefarious, their degrowth tendencies are pure evil, and their ignorance of history and human nature is shocking when you notice it.

I wish though that the right was better. It’s not. Both sides are purely clownish often in different but in many cases surprisingly similar ways.