The world's just topsy-turvy for leftists these days. Imagine the horror of finding out you have to re-learn your craft (i.e., start reporting objectively and telling the truth) from scratch or find another career. Imagine realizing that you aren't Fount O' Truth that the unwashed masses look to for hope and vision, rather those very same plebes are showing you up at your own craft!
O' the Horror!
Accountability has NEVER been the strong suit of those who would nurture and protect the forever-fragile postulates of collectivist thinking.
Left to defending its own premises, without the apologetic presstitutes, Communism in Russia would have died of its own weight in the 1930's. Much the same as radical Islamofascism would die out today. These anti-life ideologies continue to exist largely BECAUSE there are those who feel a vague dissatisfaction with their personal lives, and yet do not know how to express it, save by proclaiming their present situation as untenable.