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I remember reading this lib op-ed piece sometime around the 2016 election that made this metaphorical argument that Hillary was the bright, prepared student who sat at the front and always had an answer ready for the teacher, while Trump and Bernie were the ner-do-wells sitting in the back and making trouble. I thought while reading it, “but who’s the teacher in this analogy?” They see the whole system’s power and legitimacy not emerging out of any actual institution but from unseen, professorial figure, and that if you put too much politics in your politics they’ll give you a bad grade. Probably explains how much fretting they do about what the history writers of tomorrow will say. Which, as you said below, it ends up resembling religious struggle as it’s all about worrying how they imagine an abstract authority figure will judge them.
Yeah. It's frustrating realizing so much of my past frustrations were bc I was trying to argue facts against something that was more like religious faith.
And if we're going to pull out the "everything is projection" cliche it would explain why some of them insist Communism is a religion.