The very core of liberalism, the idea that the purpose of government is to create equity, not equality, but equity. Merit is anathema to a liberal. If someone gets paid $10 for cleaning a bathroom, and the government takes away $7 of that and gives it to someone who refuses to work and won't clean bathroom, the liberal believes that is OK/ Everyone should be equal, even when the person benefiting from the hard work of others is fully capable of working, just won't do so.
The average liberal sees nothing amiss in the fact that our government wants to enforce, by physical coercion if necessary, wearing masks and forced vaccination of citizens, all the while flooding the country with unvaccinated and unmasked unvetted foreigners via an open southern border. I rest my case.