You are absolutely 1000% correct. And many on the far left (Hillary, et al) would dearly love to see this sort of practice expanded, institutionalized and canonized.
Absolutely disgusting.
Hillary Clinton and the "Third Way"*** If others could understand your truth, you would not think of yourself as a "vanguard." You would no longer inhabit the morally charmed world of an elite, whose members alone can see the light and whose mission is to lead the unenlightened towards it. If everybody could see the promised horizon and knew the path to reach it, the future would already have happened and there would be no need for the vanguard of the saints.***