I Disagree. Liberalism Has Been, On The Whole, A Positive Force.

I disagree. liberalism has been, on the whole, a positive force.

Let’s look at the achievements of liberals:

- ended the transatlantic slave trade

- drastically reduced the power of the British monarch and Lords in favour of a democratic parliamentary system

- the French Revolution

- spread ideas of liberty and democracy to all of Europe, eventually leading to the decline and fall of the European autocracies

- the Revolutions of 1848

- the creation of Italy and Germany (which I will admit was probably an L in the long run)

- ended slavery in America (yes, the Republicans of Lincoln’s time were liberals)

- beat the Kaiser

- overthrew the Tsar and ended Russian feudalism (yes, that was the liberals. The Soviets only overthrew them later after the Republic was already established)

- liberated Ireland (while the later IRA were socialists, Michael Collins’ IRA was liberal and republican)

- beat the Nazis (the Soviets could not have won without American aid)

- decolonization (it was mostly American pressure that forced the French and British to decolonize, not Soviet.)

- liberated Eastern Europe from the USSR

- liberal democracies were the first states to decriminalize homosexuality and legalize gay marriage

And more that I don’t have time to list here.

I reiterate. No state is perfect. But America’s rivals are cartoonishly evil. The Chinese are committing a genocide as we speak. The Russians are invading a sovereign republic for no other reason than imperial expansion. The United States is practically a saint in comparison.

as trans activists we have GOT to get more comfortable with embracing the idea that we are a threat to the usamerican status quo. no more of this "we're the real america lovers, we make america great" shit. usamerica isn't and should not be made great, because it is a racist imperialist patriarchal state that has caused huge amounts of death and devastation worldwide. all our struggles are interconnected.

we should not be licking the ideological boots of a political system that gives zero shits about any of us, we should be dismantling it and replacing it with something that does. if trans existence is a threat to this country, then GOOD. I'm fucking proud of that. and you should be too.