They get to feel correct and right, affirmed by their Western and largely liberal sources. Western leftists tend to treat socialism as a form of personal growth and self-actualization by having The Best Takes.
Because liberals have the cultural status as the good boys and girls who are tolerant and went to college. I guess if you work at a high profile magazine in NYC then your social circle will include ivy league liberals, so that probably impacts who you look up to.
They might not even be aware that it's liberals or they may just think of them as leftists, which is vague enough to include a ton of liberals.
Sometimes they're being strategic and do actually explicitly target a liberal audience. They think they're doing agitprop. Sometimes it's because they think they'll convince people to check out socialism if they distance themselves from the enemies of the US State Department.
But honestly I don't think they think about it that deeply most of the time. They might think they're being strategic but they haven't critically analyzed their approach. IMO this follows from that self-actualization tendency, which is the same one driving pointless online infighting (to be distinguished from necessary policing against V*ushites and reactionaries and so on).
They get to feel correct and right, affirmed by their Western and largely liberal sources. Western leftists tend to treat socialism as a form of personal growth and self-actualization by having The Best Takes.
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Because liberals have the cultural status as the good boys and girls who are tolerant and went to college. I guess if you work at a high profile magazine in NYC then your social circle will include ivy league liberals, so that probably impacts who you look up to.
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They might not even be aware that it's liberals or they may just think of them as leftists, which is vague enough to include a ton of liberals.
Sometimes they're being strategic and do actually explicitly target a liberal audience. They think they're doing agitprop. Sometimes it's because they think they'll convince people to check out socialism if they distance themselves from the enemies of the US State Department.
But honestly I don't think they think about it that deeply most of the time. They might think they're being strategic but they haven't critically analyzed their approach. IMO this follows from that self-actualization tendency, which is the same one driving pointless online infighting (to be distinguished from necessary policing against V*ushites and reactionaries and so on).