How can a person read this thing and not immediately know in their bones the author is lying to them?

being rich and comfortable and insulated

Is being an average American liberal like being a beaten and emotionally abused spouse?

it's when you still get the treats and the only suffering people you see are of the untouchable homeless caste

How else could one make their way through that venomous gaslighting "article"?

being rich and comfortable and insulated and wanting absolution for that whisper deep down saying you are murdering the world