Very true. One may also draw parallels among the behaviors of a liberal, the behaviors of a prototypical petulant teenager (but I repeat myself …) and the behaviors of an alcoholic or addict.
The alcoholic / addict gets emotionally "stuck" and exhibits arrested emotional development reflecting the age at which he or she begins to use. The behaviors of today's modern liberal are too well known to need comment on this forum.
Personally, I'm trying to use the term "CAStrist" — portmanteau for 'Collectivist / Altruist / Statist' — for the MoDos of the world wherever I can, so that we can 'free' the term 'liberal' and return it to its proper place.
Marxists have given a new image to “liberal” and I don’t think it will ever ‘return to it’s proper place’.