I recognize that it’s speaking to an underlying emotional truth - something I’ve known on a gut level for a while now but can’t quite put my finger on. I know it’s not, as I’ve seen liberals argue, that it’s an excuse to legitimize violence against them (their own violence is all the justification one needs) or some kind of “No True Scotsman” argument. There’s something deeper and more fundamental, something to do with how the nature of their class position causes them to set themselves apart from and above the vast majority of humanity. Anyone who can help me put this into words?
they have sold their souls/humanity for money and power.
when people of power lose all empathy for the rest of us.
It’s not just a matter of empathy, though you are right that they certainly lack it. It’s the fact that the very nature of their class position demands that they act cruelly or else get out-competed by someone who does, which is a widely unifying principle that is only set aside when a business that can’t compete with its larger equivalents decides to instead cut out a tiny share of the market to appeal specifically to left-liberals who want to have “moral consumption” as part of their lifestyle brand.