Reminds one of the die-hard communists Solzhenitsyn described in Gulag Archipelago
Even though they were arrested and put in the gulag to suffer and die with everyone else, there was a certain group of prisoners who remained die-hard Marxist believers, who were certain it was all just a mistake, that they would be released and rehabilitated at any time, and who continued promote the Bolsheviks and Marxism to anyone who would listen.
Great quote—this is the leftist Jews today who think they are “not white” and the leftists who hate them will figure it out any day now.
All forms of extreme Leftism fall in line with cults. In this case, it’s a secular cult where party leaders are worshipped.
The only people I see dropping friends or ignoring family are those on the Far Left who shun everyone else as “Others” and demonize them in their own minds. It’s scary to witness in my own mom.
Solzhenitsyn himself was still a believer in communism, he just thought the soviet dictators “weren’t doing it right” ...