I remember that old "was meant to", and the eternal importance of "Intends to" that people give away every Liberal value they have to, cos It's the official idea it's all about - not the reality part. The people enjoy stories while they get trampled down and deformed.
I don't care about politicians' words, or whether their words are dumb - I care about their actions, I care about Liberalism not Socialism, and I'm definitely not going back to my old Communist party again either.
Very simple. Watching this develop over 10 years has been absolutely treasonous. Never cared what other had to say about it, be they conservative or liberal. I don't need people's narratives to see it all fall brick by brick.
Though it's turning dramatically on many fronts, and perhaps one day, Liberals become equality-minded once again and quit Progressivism/The Democratic Socialist Party. To some extent they're still Libs in my own country and your guys are way out on the left with our Socialist parties (we have abut 9 parties left from right that you learn a little about in College), but the UK through the EU still poisoned our institutions as well as yours, and that's hard to recover from.
But all that would make my comment even longer...
"Forces everyone to have the same thing" - that's the most childish description of Communism I've ever heard. Democrats and the European Liberal parties in the same go (2020), went anti Liberal when they officially erased equality for equity in every policy. When Diversity Equity and Inclusion was to be involved in every aspect of human life.
They still call equity projects "equality" when they talk though, but not on paper.
The Marxist economic concept of Equity was in the Liberal sense solely meant for the few welfare recipients, especially people with disabilities, physical or mental. A smaller compensation for temporary unemployed. Now the compensation for bad luck is omnipotent, and this is what politicians like Kamala Harris have put up as the society goal. The all encompassing equality of outcome...
What's happening is the old "Dictatorship Of The Proletariat" but by minority groups
