They are used as a ‘means to an end’. Then discarded.
Someday the woke American jerks will be in the re-education and death camps next to the conservatives and patriots they disdained.
In his brilliant autobiography, Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards, Al Kooper recalled an incident in NYC.
He was singer, musician and producer , he was the one who composed the organ music on the spot for Bob Dylan creating Like A Rolling Stone and others and played on Jimi Hendrix, BB King and George Harrison albums).
After marching in civil rights marches and giving at fundraising dinners for various causes, he found himself surrounded one night on the sidewalk by black males. After doing as he was told and not fighting, giving his money and watch and ring, they held him and beat him for a few minutes, hurting him badly. As he sank to the ground in pain he thought “Hey, you guys, I was on your side. I marched for your rights. Why are you doing this to me?”