How Can a Liberal Escape the Matrix ?

I don't think a liberal can escape the matrix, though they sometimes talk about it.

How can a person be subject to the laws, decisions, opinions, and practices of progressive lawmakers, activists, and donors and claim to be free of the matrix? 

If the size, scope, and range of government increases, and it will, where will you fle e?  How will you keep your buddies out your mind, house, finances, doctor's office, church, and hair?

Freedom from the matrix and a party that sees too much freedom is incompatible.

On the west coast USA, the opposition is almost totally controlled by the progressives.
Churches prevent their members from getting too into politics, because it might become their God.
Churches here are more into practical sociology, practical psychology, and petty power politics than they are into the Bible.  Right now, the right would like to reduce the government, but the vast majority won't do anything but vote for a RINO or watch a TV commentator bash a lib celebrity.

Few conservatives will not consistently go to meetings, training, take classes, investigate for themselves, or stand up for themselves.  Like I said, progressives more or less control the opposition.  The ORGOP has not elected a Republican gov since the 1980's.

Christians who want out of the matrix need to find new churches, which may be an impossibility.  They also need to fight back against and not just passively accept government interference in their lives and the constant attempts to sway our opinions.  Tuning out the TV is a huge obstacle too.  I remember as a kid, people at church just bashing TV.  Those days are gone.

How many "republicans" will repeat the other side's lines about Sarah Palin?  Too many.
I'll tell you exactly why:  Palin put Alaskan political elites IN JAIL.  D.C. doesn't want the elites to go to jail, so they harass her and demean her.  And idiot "republicans" sheeple follow along, considering what RINO the elites on TV decide are best.

Avoid "escape the matrix" writers who don't get this.

Question even if the church says not to.

Stand up for yourself even if your church says not to.

Throw your whole heart and soul into what you must, even though pantywaist pastors will disapprove.  You'll have to when you hit roadblocks.

Escaping the matrix isn't for the lazy, or gullible.