> Convincing people that liberalism still works basically only means pointing them to how the world factually really looks. You can fool some of the people som

> Convincing people that liberalism still works basically only means pointing them to how the world factually really looks. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. As just one example: "works", as in "liberalism works", is not a true/false binary, and there's little genuine reason to think our current designs are anywhere near optimal on an absolute scale. Convincing people something is true can often be done simply by using language skilfully.