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Even PhDs aren't great. I've had history professors tell me directly that communism in practice is the same as monarchy. One time a sociology prof I had was having a casual chat with me about why socialists can't achieve their aims unless they integrate within American Protestantism. Then he called Marxism a religion.
For the life of me I just want some educated liberals who know their class position and I want them to be openly evil about it. That would be so much easier. I thought that's what self-identified neoliberals would be, but even they're very confused.
Part of growing up is realizing that degrees don't make a person smart or knowledgeable.
They are usually knowledgeable within their field, but not necessarily intelligent or aware of their lack of knowledge in other fields
After all, they learned from a fucking idiot who thought those ideas were worth nurturing for another generation
You have to look for these among social democrats of the 90s and early 2000s in Europe. Many of them were former Marxists in the 60s, 70s, throwing bombs at cops etc. They adapted to throwing bombs at middle easterners and implementing radical market reforms (increasing the exploitation rate) to "fix" Capitalism accomplish capitalist goals.
The people you mention in the last paragraph that are openly evil had to work very hard to overcome their humanity or they were born sociopaths. It's hard for an average normal non-reptilian dork to read 100 wikipedia pages about liberalism and admit that he wants to plunge the entire earth into labor camps for profit. They need many layers of plausible deniability to convince themselves that they have good intentions and that they should definitely not be stricken from this world
You mean Hill dawg and Obama