Who said anything about burning anything down? The biggest problem with liberal politics of "progressivism" and "reform" isn't so much that politely asking for exploitation and oppression to end is absurd and demeaning and pointless - even though it is all those things - but that in practice, liberal "reformers" hardly reform anything, and
when they do, those reforms are very quickly repealed, sometimes by people of the same political party and ideology as the original reformer! It is the politics of professional white collar cronyism. People are coached and educated to appear a certain way and say certain things, and are absorbed by a party apparatus (or rather, multiple party apparatuses) that needs and can use people who fit that certain mold. While ultimately at some level there are people like us - "the chattering classes," "plebs" - who look at this process from the outside-in and may object to the policy it produces, the campaign slogans, the rhetoric and the party platforms are designed not to make good policy but to cloak this process in legitimacy and professionalism. Cuz otherwise it'd be very quickly recognized for the culture-wide circlejerk that it is
