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 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).