A Quote by Dave Rubin
Sadly, the Left is no longer liberal at all, for it has traded in individualism for collectivism, thus placing us into an oppression Olympics where victimhood is a virtue. This post-modernism - this cultural Marxism or whatever you want to call it - can only destroy; it cannot create.
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I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.
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