The libs see their future and it ain't pretty. They refuse to accept they are in the minority in the US.
What I see among the primitives, including Atman, is a subconscious vexation that things aren't working out the way they hoped they would, and planned they would.
Message from franksolich out here in reality to the primitives over there on Skins's island: It
never happens, and it's
never going to happen.
Even if, God forbid, the Democrats were to win 435 seats in the House of Representatives and all the Senate seats up for election this year, the conservative minority on the Supreme Court dropped over dead, being replaced by fringe extremists, and the Big Zero gets named President for Life, things are
never going to go the way the primitives want them to.
The primitives are always going to fantasize about ruling the world, but people and forces bigger and brighter than the primitives have tried that, and failed.
In the end, even if their side "wins," it's not going to happen.
So the primitives might as well accept that, and grow up, and evolve towards getting along with other people, most especially their ideological opposites.