What you've just written is the perfect justification for why we should demonize her. Caitlin is mouthing progressive platitudes simply because
1) It is expected of her
2) Society rewards such behavior
Point 1 demonstrates an extreme lack of moral courage. People who do things just because society expects it are NPC subhumans. I imagine most Germans were complicit with the Nazi genocide for similar reasons - everybody else was doing it and it was expected.
Point 2 implies that Caitlin is being given the incorrect incentives. We can easily fix that by changing her incentives. If she is being rewarded by one political side for demonstrating moral cowardice and stupidity, then the solution is for the other side to terrorize her until her fear of punishment exceeds her desire for said rewards. If somebody like Caitlin has no moral courage to stand up for their own beliefs and instead just follows the incentives that society gives them, then they are effectively an animal and the rest of us should be allowed to do whatever we want to elicit the desired behavior out of them.
What you've just written is the perfect justification for why we should demonize her. Caitlin is mouthing progressive platitudes simply because
1) It is expected of her
2) Society rewards such behavior
Point 1 demonstrates an extreme lack of moral courage. People who do things just because society expects it are NPC subhumans. I imagine most Germans were complicit with the Nazi genocide for similar reasons - everybody else was doing it and it was expected.
Point 2 implies that Caitlin is being given the incorrect incentives. We can easily fix that by changing her incentives. If she is being rewarded by one political side for demonstrating moral cowardice and stupidity, then the solution is for the other side to terrorize her until her fear of punishment exceeds her desire for said rewards. If somebody like Caitlin has no moral courage to stand up for their own beliefs and instead just follows the incentives that society gives them, then they are effectively an animal and the rest of us should be allowed to do whatever we want to elicit the desired behavior out of them.