Does reality have a liberal bias?

 So, this is a common statement made by liberals in defense of their philosophy. I've even used it myself when I was a new liberal during the whole 2012-2014 era. But I have to ask, as I've cooled off on mainstream liberalism, is it true? Well, sorta. And it depends on the context.

This statement is best used against the conservative right. If you look at politics within the two party duopoly, yes, reality is definitely going to lean more liberal. The right is out of touch, and their ideology is divorced of facts. There's a reason I am so critical of the right. Their entire ideology is bankrupt, and there is little to nothing to be gleaned from it. Conservatives deny climate change, they believe torture works, they believe the world is 6000 years old, they believe Biden stole the 2020 election, among many many other lies and falsehoods. At this point, it would be a much shorter list to cite what the right is...right about, than what they're wrong about. 

At the same time, liberals at least base their views on reality. They cite academics, and statistics, and studies, and have a decent track record in governing. They believe in science, including social science. Such a low bar. But what about mainstream liberalism, vs say, the social democratic left, or socialism, or social libertarianism? Well, it gets a lot more iffy. While liberalism isn't really outright factually wrong about much, once we start living within reality, we can percieve reality in different ways and still be right. There are many marxist academics in social sciences, who do good work. Many studies support, for example, UBI, and many of its counterintuitive effects on the economy. Reality is like a random #6 (or 9) sitting out with no real frame of reference to what number it's supposed to be. A conservative will insist that it's neither, it's definitely a 2, but once we accept that reality is not in fact a 2, and we need to debate what other number it could be, well, that's where real debates can be had.

Liberals tend to be arrogant in their centrism, claiming to be more factual and non ideological than everyone else, but at the same time, they come off as just as ideological as everyone else. Their views aren't really wrong, in terms of factualness, but they offer just as biased a perspective as anyone else. And sometimes they are susceptible to falsehoods and exaggerations. They got on board with Russiagate, for example, which had a grain of truth, but is grossly overexaggerated for political gain. They also tend to have extremely ideological views on social justice issues at times, which can be questionable. They will insist, for example, a trans person who changes sex is 100% the other sex. This is a nice ideological statement to try to reaffirm someone's lifestyle, but I can't hold it intellectually in reality. 

So honestly, once we get out of the low bar that is conservatism and its blatant falsehoods, liberalism isn't really any more factual than anyone else in my opinion. They're just another ideology, for better or for worse. A valid one, but not the only way of looking at things. All ideologies have strengths and weaknesses, as all ideologies are mere lenses. Liberalism might be more correct than conservatives, but that doesn't make them the final arbiter on all things real. There are many valid ways of looking at the world.