I hate how having hope for improvement despite our current system is something that people think makes you a liberal in people's eyes
I was talking to a friend and when we began to discuss the physical racial barrier of segregation in our city, I talked about how we could fix one and she replied we can’t just move the buildings and that’s not what I was arguing, I was saying we could make the road less wide by putting in wider sidewalks and bike lanes and she refused to hear it saying that it would never happen in our city, it’s too corrupt. So when I said that we had to try and fix the mistakes of the past, she simply responded that we can not fix the past and can work towards the future. Which is a stupid world view because how can we make a better future if we don’t address the actions of the past and try to fix what was done. After our conversation I joked about how we accidentally became a discussion of leftism and then she said that I was being a liberal and this is the only part I can think of to which she may have been referring. The hope for improvement makes you a liberal in the eyes of some people
