I’m talking about their rhetoric, their mental frame for excusing what they do. Thats exactly what they are doing. Have you heard of “Build Back better” and “Carbon Neutral” and all the rest. Their framing is that there’s a disaster, it’s vaguely something about humans being a poison to the planet, but if we give them power they will fix everything and make a perfect society. None of this has anything to do with whether or not all of them individually believe it to their core, it’s purely an observation about the way things are mentally framed to excuse whatever power they wish to take. 

 Ah I see. Interesting perspective. Although I would say russia has their own echo of that with “the motherland” and patriotism for the “good of Russia” 

Douglas Macgregor has written on this difference I can’t find the article but the essence is describing the difference with American elites playing their rhetoric to the individual benefit of American individuals- Russians believe national unity and the “good of the motherland” are acceptable reasons for sacrifices on their part.