Why Liberals Are Not at All Left-Wing: How They Serve the Particular Will Instead of the General Will
Modern liberalism is not the left.
It is a carefully curated illusion — a product of emotion-driven politics, identity tribalism, and corporate capture. While liberals brand themselves as the vanguard of progress, in truth, they are the ideological firewall protecting the very system they claim to oppose. Their loyalty lies not with the General Will of the people but with a fractured landscape of particular grievances that distract from systemic change.
They are not revolutionaries. They are the self-appointed HR department of the status quo.
The General Will vs. the Narcissism of Minor Difference
Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined the General Will as the collective good of a people who legislate together in pursuit of shared, rational, moral aims. It is universal, impersonal, and based on reason — not on the emotional clamor of special interests.
“The general will is always right… but the deliberations of the people are not always equally correct. The general will is found by subtracting the sum of the particular wills.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
Liberals, however, champion what can only be called the Particular Will: the narrow, self-obsessed politics of identity fragments. Trans representation in media. Pronoun etiquette. Corporate logos in rainbow colors during Pride Month. While the planet burns, billionaires hoard, and AI prepares to automate half of civilization, liberalism remains fixated on boutique struggles that can be safely commodified by the existing regime.
The “liberal left” is not concerned with creating a system of justice. It is concerned with curating a system of aesthetics — one where oppression still exists, but looks inclusive.
Emotionalism: The Great Liberal Weakness
The modern liberal operates primarily on emotion — wounded outrage, fragile offense, and the fetishization of “feeling safe.” This is not politics rooted in dialectics, reason, or merit — but in performance, fragility, and virtue signaling.
“Liberalism is not rationalism. It’s emotionalism. It is a politics of therapy, not of transformation.”
— Michael Faust
Liberals mistake symbolic gestures for structural justice. They believe representation in elite institutions equals progress, while ignoring the architecture of exploitation that remains unchanged: dynastic wealth, class supremacy, rigged markets, and social stagnation.
True leftism seeks to remove the oligarchy. Liberalism merely wants more skin tones and gender identities within it.
The Myth of Inclusion: Identity is Not Justice
Liberal politics today revolve around surface diversity — the idea that justice can be achieved by having more marginalized faces in powerful positions. A Black police chief. A female drone pilot. A transgender CEO.
But as Mike Hockney reminds us:
“It is not who rules that matters. It is how they rule and by what principles. Identity is no substitute for talent, wisdom, or the will to serve the collective good.”
— Mike Hockney
Liberals do not seek a world where birth, background, or biology are rendered irrelevant. They seek a world where each identity gets a seat at the table — even if the table is still owned by billionaires and set atop a broken system.
This is not meritocracy. It is optics.
The Corporate Capture of “Progress”
The fact that Fortune 500 companies, Hollywood, and the military-industrial complex now parrot liberal talking points should terrify anyone who actually understands power.
What we are witnessing is not radical transformation. It is ideological laundering — where social justice rhetoric is used to sanitize imperialism, surveillance, wage slavery, and technocratic control.
If your “revolution” is being sponsored by Lockheed Martin or Goldman Sachs, it’s not a revolution — it’s a rebrand.
Liberalism is the opiate of the upper-middle class — a feel-good morality play that allows people to post hashtags about inclusion while ignoring sweatshops, drone wars, censorship, and a collapsing biosphere.
The Real Left: Rational, Universal, and Merit-Based
A true meritocratic left — the one we represent — envisions a radically different future. One rooted not in sentiment, but in reason, justice, and opportunity.
We believe:
Every person – regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, class, lineage, age, sexuality, or geographical nationality – should enjoy equal human rights and equal opportunity to thrive and develop to the greatest extent of their individual talent and ambition.
This means building a system — not just a culture — where merit is rewarded and privilege is abolished. It means that no child, anywhere on Earth, should be born with a better chance in life because of their surname, zip code, or skin tone.
That’s not leftism. That’s not liberalism. That’s rational humanity.
The 100% Inheritance Tax: The Great Equalizer
The most revolutionary — and rational — policy to ensure a true meritocracy is a 100% inheritance tax.
“Why should the children of the rich be rewarded for what they did not do, for the achievements of others? Inherited wealth is the cornerstone of plutocracy. Meritocracy begins by abolishing it.”
— Michael Faust
The wealth of the dead must return to the collective — to be redistributed for education, infrastructure, universal healthcare, AI-enhanced opportunity, and generational equity.
Liberals, however, fear such ideas. Why? Because they have no intention of dismantling inherited privilege. They merely want to democratize it.
A truly left-wing movement would not allow a child in Manhattan to inherit $100 million while another in Mumbai starves. That is not civilization. That is organized barbarism in a designer suit.
The Great Diversion: Culture War vs Class War
The liberal fixation on identity politics is not a step forward. It's a step sideways — and often backward.
Instead of building collective solidarity across lines of class, liberals atomize people into an ever-growing list of micro-identities and personal grievances. The focus is no longer on shared struggle, but on individualized victimhood.
What do we get?
Obsessing over gender pronouns in workplace emails
Fighting for corporate media “representation” while those same corporations crush unions
Canceling individuals for speech while ignoring the billionaires funding war, surveillance, and environmental collapse
This is bourgeois politics — the self-indulgent theater of a privileged class with the time and comfort to make feeling seen more important than changing systems. It is the narcissism of the affluent.
“Identity politics is the perfect weapon of the ruling class — it divides, distracts, and defuses.”
As long as the working class is fighting itself over race, gender, religion, sexuality, or language, it won’t unite around the real war — the class war.
The elite don’t care who you sleep with, what you identify as, or which holidays you celebrate — as long as you never realize that they are robbing you blind.
The system doesn’t need to hate you.
It just needs to keep you fighting each other.
Real Unity Means Class Solidarity
In the meritocratic future we fight for, every individual is respected, but no identity is sacralized.
We stand for:
Equality of opportunity for all, not special status based on grievance
Class unity, not identity segregation
Rational solidarity, not emotional tribalism
You can be Black, white, religious or secular, gay, straight, male, female, non-binary, or anything else — what matters is that you stand on the side of justice, merit, and liberation from inherited power.
This is not the erasure of identity. It’s the transcendence of identity — in pursuit of the General Will.
From Sentiment to Systems: The Shift We Must Make
The era of liberal moral theater must end.
We need something bigger than feelings.
We need systems.
We need:
A universal basic income, and the complete abolition of inherited wealth through a 100% inheritance tax
(The purpose is not redistribution for its own sake — it is to prevent the formation of dynasties, to sever the link between bloodline and power, and to build a world where no one — not a single soul — begins life ahead of others due to the accomplishments of the dead.)Genius-centered custom education programs across the globe
(Every child must have the tools to realize their full potential, regardless of where or to whom they are born.)Digital governance systems guided by reason, not identity
(We must retire tribal representation in favor of rational stewardship, transparency, and logic-driven leadership.)The abolition of class privilege, crony capitalism, and inherited economic power
(No more families ruling nations through money. No more oligarchs masquerading as philanthropists. No more fake merit.)An AI-augmented meritocracy rooted in service, skill, and sacrifice
(We must empower the best minds — not the best marketers, not the best networkers — to build a future that serves everyone.)
This isn’t utopian.
It’s survival — with dignity.
The question is no longer whether the liberal project has failed.
The question is:
Will we finally stop mistaking it for the left?
The Return of the General Will
The future doesn’t belong to fragile egos, narcissistic grievance politics, or rainbow-colored predatory hyper-capitalism. It belongs to those who can rise above tribal identity, who embrace duty over drama, and who seek not to feel good — but to do good for all humanity.
We must return to the General Will. To reason, equality, and collective flourishing.
And we must bury liberalism — not with hatred, but with clarity.
Because what masquerades as progress… is often the greatest obstacle to it.
And we’re done pretending otherwise.