Ignore all the suffering in the world and just abuse my white privilege to have a trophy wife who secretly hates me and a middle management job at Amaz*n or some corporate firm where I "put the papers on Johnson's desk by Friday" and flirt with my secretary all day long.
Like just imagine how blissfully happy you'd be if you could ignore the inherent evil that exists in all facets of modern life and the only time you feel motivated to do anything is to "vote blue no matter who" once every 4 years just so you can pretend that you've made a difference.
This is all true, but the aesthetic gesturing that their leaders make is enough for them. It's not progress (or very little at best), but it feels like progress. Obergefell v. Hodges is a huge win for them, even though for us it's like "that's cool and good, why did it take so much work to get there? also there's still a lot of work to do..."
I wish that the American Left could get any sort of a huge win like that, even if it's soc-dem whatever like M4A or GND. It would feel good (even though the job wouldn't be done with one or either of those things).
I get this too. Maybe Its just hard for me now to remember what its like being a lib