I'm not perceiving them as caricatures, but idealogues; just as I would any International Socialist. Socialists, universally, only care about acquiring power. They don't even necessarily care about holding it because their obsession and lust for power is nearly deranged. Everyone who is not operating on that activist streak is simply operating from a positions of Useful Idiocy.
The one-track mind that is prepared to sacrifice every principle is not a bug, it is an explicit feature.
I'm not perceiving them as caricatures, but idealogues; just as I would any International Socialist. Socialists, universally, only care about acquiring power. They don't even necessarily care about holding it because their obsession and lust for power is nearly deranged. Everyone who is not operating on that activist streak is simply operating from a positions of Useful Idiocy.
The one-track mind that is prepared to sacrifice every principle is not a bug, it is an explicit feature.