What Liberal Celebrations of Democrats Has to Do with Platonic Idealism

This is an excellent article which describes the problems with imagining that The Democratic Party will make any fundamental changes now that the election has been handed to them.

The problem for liberals is that the forces of change center around the personalties of politicians and their separation of politics from economics. Liberals personalize deep economic contradictions and imagine that changes in ideology and personality will change the economy. In philosophy these values are called idealist. The image shows the contrasting materialist understanding which the author supports.

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