I’m not so sure they are that “deluded.” None of the former residents of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe I’ve spoken with list those two motives for wanting to return to their farms. Who knows for sure what they have in their heart.
I find striking the fact these farmers didn’t fight Mugabe and his thugs with everything they had. Could you imagine what would happen if our government tried to steal our farmers land? Even now, the farmers are content with waiting for “Old Bob” to assume room temperature, unbelievable.
I don’t think they have ever showed much in the intellectual department when it comes to dealing with their predicament. To me they seem like country club Republicans whose convervatism is that of their privileges and foggy recollections of their past.