“...a flabby love of the poor and oppressed as an abstraction.”
Well put. They also pursue a love for an abstract Utopia that never has come to pass because it is out of line with the details and reality of human nature and life. That is why when they get down to trying to make their Utopia, they end up killing millions of humans for not fitting into their abstract Utopia. They tell themselves, “after we get rid of this group or that group, we will have the new socialist man who will live in Utopia with the correct thinking and behavior.” Liberals have no problem with eugenics.
I think that is because they are unbalanced people. Crazy.