How nothing was said working in my class

A sure sign of a liberal, whom a person of the left should not trust, is that they take things personally.  They evaluate things personally, reducing the political to the ethical, upon which they mistakenly believe it is founded.  

This makes attempted conversations with them very dangerous.  They will attack you personally, probably with a psychological attribution, if they are really angry a criminal one.  But it will be your fault. You assaulted them, by telling them they are wrong.   You cannot tell an American liberal they are wrong.  How dare you?  Everyone has the right to be right just because they sincerely believe whatever it is, and it is true "for them."

This is almost in our constitution.  In this way there is no public sphere in American social life.  

The only downside of all this from my point of view is that it does tend to make the society I live in seem unlivable since in a certain way it is not a society at all, since is the kind whose people and ruling elites are determined that it not be one.  If it were a society that would be like socialism which is the real tyranny, whereas you're free if you only have bosses you can ignore and who may fire you anyway as no one has any obligation to anyone else.   

The impossibility I find of talking to liberals is that they are apparently not capable of understanding the left critique of their supposedly infinite open-mindedness.  This is why the one thing a liberal will never tolerate is being called a liberal.  Call him a socialist and he will give you a principled reason explaining why he is not.  Call him a liberal and he will become outraged.  You called me a name, a category, pinning me down.  I have no determination, I am infinite and absolute.  Which is of course is exactly what liberalism is and why you strike a nerve if you call a liberal a liberal.  The idea there is no such thing.  It would be like averring to an American that he has a national particularity.  

I used to like to say angry words.  To you but not about you, not against you, just about some things I suspect you might be associated with.  What I get in response often felt like a punch in the stomach.  This must that I was a fool in much the way I thought most of them were.  I finally figure out it is best to write and not to talk to anyone, unless maybe we're like good friends or something.  I mean like you know what I mean don't you, I mean, if anyone in this country is friends with anyone.  We went to schools and had jobs and we were around people who are ambiguous in that regard.  In New York people get used to the fact that many people right up close to you are not your friends and don't have to be but if you lived in one of the provinces or had a normally abnormal family as I did you might not always know that.   

I am making political statements in the public sphere of the administrative state.  No I'm not.  Yes I am.

William HeidbrederComment