That's not my impression, my impression is that it's laziness channeled into virtue signaling to show all the other lazy people out there that if they are fed up with having to struggle for results then instead they can redefine the struggle as evil and their ideal circumstance of doing nothing and being praised for it may become a reality.

Of course this mindset can only ever attract other lazy people and even then only from a distance. Even lazy people desire relationships with people putting in the effort.

That's the OP's original point: people who spend their entire lives "fighting corruption" get blinded by their righteousness and zealotry and in effect become corrupt themselves.