Exactly right. And there’s a real element of “status” to being liberal because it’s associated with universities, therefore with “intelligence” and being of a higher economic class. They sneer down on the blue collar jobs, and are told over and over again that to be educated and intelligent IS to be liberal, and they are elevating their status by joining this cult.
Totally agree. Cult is a very good way of describing it. Nails it really.