It's also comes off as a sort of narcissism of minor differences in terms of practical application of ideology within developed states; your differences in activism is aesthetic.
Reading about Weimar Germany tells similar stories of out of touch liberals alienating and dismissing the grievances and frustrations of the working class that attracted them to communism, social democracy, and Nazism/fascism. Meager amounts of power and privilege is incredibly alienating and dehumanizing is it not?
I like to think that the attitudes of these boutique liberals are reflections of the bourgeoisie themselves. That they are really and truly out of touch, indifferent, delusional, or cynical.
It seems she's rethinking their relationship and using the "petty tyrant is OK to wish the death for" as an excuse to rethink the arrangement; under her impression, she is leaving a child alone with someone who may or may not be indifferent to the deaths of decent-if-misguided political actors.
It's probably best described as a delusion to justify exploitation, much like the notion of White Man's Burden was during the 18th and 19th century colonial empires
Is this the same line of logic that informs the liberal visceral contempt and hatred of Sanders?
Is it just in the reverse where Sanders advocates the sharing of American wealth with the non-deserving that liberal Protestant Work Ethic has contempt for, or jsut the exposition of how the liberal values are just about inspiring speeches and not material equity? (Probably answered my question there though.)
That aside, the responses here are all very good and well articulated convincing arguments for explaining the cognitive dissonance of Trump thwarting liberal values,.
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