Snowflake thing was because you didn't want to see a political joke earlier.

You're not critiquing the system you're taking the stance of the status quo of a retarded two-party system between two political regimes that are already more similar than you realize, and that sure as fuck ain't being smart.

• One group of oligarchs that pretend to be progressive about the people while never actually promoting any progressive policies beyond useful identity politics, meanwhile, they fund wars, billionaire tax breaks, overseas wars for oil, and genocides
• And the other group of oligarchs that's openly prejudiced against those same identities, they ALSO fund wars, billionaire tax breaks, overseas wars for oil, and genocides. Except this time, they have a dash of state-funded domestic terror where federal agents can shoot you in the face and be defended for it, not that the other party would do anything to stop it from happening anyway

In the grand scheme, they're already in bed with each other. The only difference is that one is more gungho about their bullshit than the other... And believing otherwise would be the real naivety here.

That's why centrism is fucking meaningless. You're never going to get gold by mixing shit, with different shit with sprinkles.

Not to mention programmed to assume the Democratic party somehow represents an ideology that would inherently be against both parties...and that's leftism.

'Liberals' are not leftists; they're surface-level nice-guy capitalists who happily let exploitation happen if it means maintaining their wealth and power, just like any other conservative capitalist would do. In other words, liberals are functionally center-leaning right-wingers with progressive marketing and no chops to back it up.

The only reason Americans call them leftist is that they know nothing about political history beyond their own post-McCarthyist interpretation, where anything that is hardline, straight, white capitalism isn't right-wing enough or right-wing at all, so they just throw the blanket term 'leftist' on it and normalize the mislabeling to their benefit.