This is a common line around liberals that champion the liberal democratic system: "look at all the things we can do so long as we pose no threat to the ruling class". They carefully curate a subset of activities that count as freedom and democracy and enforce it through owning basically all of the media and political thought in their countries.
Part of this psychology is to celebrate that subset of liberal freedoms. This creates a civil religion, particularly for the state and ruling class (cults of capitalism and VOOOOTING in the US right this second!), and also serves to create an outgroup (everyone that allegedly doesn't have those things) to pity and to target for death for threatening the ones the good liberals have.
Examples of things they celebrate that are similar to "hating the government":
Voting - even when the "bad guys" win, though usually it acts as a form of catharsis despite having little to rare impact on the important changes in their lives.
Protests, at first recuperating radical marches into liberal parades, now the liberal parades are all they can imagine and all that happen.
In the US, gun ownership and brandishing. The conflation of freedom and weaponry growing out of a deliberate political campaign to reinterpret the US Constitution is now an appeal to the "original" vision of the republic, lol.
A vague hatred of politicians, which sure, the system promotes corrupt sociopaths, but also, liberals themselves actively embrace and defend that system.
Actually all of these are a false catharsis, a way to feel like you're doing something to fight the baddies in power while using the weakest forms of pushback we can imagine. There is no, "this is what needs to change, this is what we think it takes to get it on this timeline, now let's do it and evaluate whether it worked ". Which is to say, nothing that takes our problems seriously.
This is a common line around liberals that champion the liberal democratic system: "look at all the things we can do so long as we pose no threat to the ruling class". They carefully curate a subset of activities that count as freedom and democracy and enforce it through owning basically all of the media and political thought in their countries.
Part of this psychology is to celebrate that subset of liberal freedoms. This creates a civil religion, particularly for the state and ruling class (cults of capitalism and VOOOOTING in the US right this second!), and also serves to create an outgroup (everyone that allegedly doesn't have those things) to pity and to target for death for threatening the ones the good liberals have.
Examples of things they celebrate that are similar to "hating the government":
Voting - even when the "bad guys" win, though usually it acts as a form of catharsis despite having little to rare impact on the important changes in their lives.
Protests, at first recuperating radical marches into liberal parades, now the liberal parades are all they can imagine and all that happen.
In the US, gun ownership and brandishing. The conflation of freedom and weaponry growing out of a deliberate political campaign to reinterpret the US Constitution is now an appeal to the "original" vision of the republic, lol.
A vague hatred of politicians, which sure, the system promotes corrupt sociopaths, but also, liberals themselves actively embrace and defend that system.
Actually all of these are a false catharsis, a way to feel like you're doing something to fight the baddies in power while using the weakest forms of pushback we can imagine. There is no, "this is what needs to change, this is what we think it takes to get it on this timeline, now let's do it and evaluate whether it worked ". Which is to say, nothing that takes our problems seriously.