reactionaries spent half a century working on better answers to “or what?” questions after the New Deal Coalition and Warren Court forced Civil Rights and the Great Society on them
liberals took the legislation/rulings as victories in themselves instead of compromises made to quell leftist threats
Liberals only desire the comfort of playing pretend in their vapid joyless inhumane lifestyle
Imagine if in Truman Show after learning the truth, Truman didn’t face reality however uncomfortable that might be
Or in the Matrix, NEO took the other pill to stay in the Matrix
That’s who liberals are
That's not entirely true wrt the civil rights movement. Things did keep moving after that, and so they assassinated the biggest symbols of that threat, and shifted toward neoliberalism and found ways to use capitalism to replace explicit segregation.