Liberals are WAY more concerned with what makes them appear ‘hip’ or ‘cool’ or ‘smart’.
APPEARANCE. They keep up with current ‘trends’. Those commercials with the guy who says “I’m a PC” and the other ‘cool’ guy who’s “a MAC” describes it from THEIR point of view. They NEED to follow trends.
Which leads me to believe they have low self-esteem and are weaker people deep inside.
Yes, liberalism is all about feeling good about oneself, about affirming “I’m a good person” (better than you, of course), about living out the pernicious lie of “people are basically good”.
This is why they are so paternalistic.
I’ve heard “60% of the people can’t make decisions for themselves”.
The reason they [want to, need to] believe this is twofold:
1) THEY (the libs) are obviously more competent, by definition, than those “60%”.
2) THEY (the libs) are obviously morally superior to you, because they “CARE” about those people and you don’t.
Libs never had an idea. They merely parrot some jive from one of their idols. And they will defend it violently, because they can’t back it with reason.
If I may put your point in fewer words: Liberals are highly susceptible to group-think.