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A liberal in a post-boomer era will probably settle down in a general realm of where norwegian social democratists kind of sit, but we'll keep a lot of our american peculiarities. We'll eventually go single payer, and once it's a universal platform it will never be able to go back (similar to how it's untouchable even to the foulest right wing parties in other developed nations). The conservatives will bump over the hump of no return with their transphobia and eventually lose out in the same inexorable pattern that saw them losing the culture war over gay marriage. We'll be in some combination reboot and repair mode over social systems which are much more robust in literally every other developed nation, overcoming the damage of decades of work by a party that gets elected on the promise of government not working (followed by 'starve the beast' style attacks on those systems to 'prove' it). The elements of the left wing that are less likely to survive probably include those elements which are the most traction-killingly divisive. Even some of the most otherwise identity-politics-left types I have known in my entire life are starting to walk away from the endless divisive infighting of left wing circles that spend most of their time policing left wing groups to death over who is or is not being appropriately conscientious and intersectionally Allied over whatever microaggression du jour is not being paid attention to. I would probably do a bad job of explaining it at length but basically what we should be thinking about is to wonder what we're going to be looking at, what is left when liberal-ness gets put through the forced evolution of a core test of "is it done with being useless and self-defeatingly internally divisive?"
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