Your assessment is correct only when applied to non-malevolent liberals: that is, the deluded rather than the vicious and power-seeking. But the vicious and power-seeking tend to rise to the top of any machine built for the pursuit of power, at which pont they begin to act on their true convictions.
Isabel Paterson put it thus in The God of the Machine:
The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others. And the good people cannot be exonerated for supporting them. Neither can it be believed that the good people are wholly unaware of what actually happens. But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the their measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.
Some day, this syndrome will have a pseudo-Latin name, an entry in the diagnostic manuals, and, hopefully, a minimum sentence.
