"In translation, this is the unspoken theme of grief-centered politics: We are suffering, so you owe it to us to give us what we ask for."
Worse yet, there is some sick psychosis in these people in that they want to suffer, want to be grief-stricken. They expect to be hated, and are lost w/o that sense of persecution.
Don't believe it?
Recall the days of Reagan's first term, when these same peacenics were in hyper-60's mode. Peter Paul and Mary were raising big bucks for PBS, and the Smothers Brothers were trying to make a comeback. Peacenics did those hokey "nuclear free zones" and did die-ins and decried US's Central American policies.
Then one day the wall fell, followed by the defeat of various communist regimes in Central America. Nukes were chopped up and American troops came home.
Did the peaceniks celebrate? NOOOOO!!!! They didn't celebrate one time. They didn't hold mass celebrations of the end of the Viet Nam war either. In fact, in both cases these people were hopeless lost, their favorite psychosis ripped from them.
And they've been searching for a cause that lands them in the limelight ever since.