Democraps (with the emphasis on crap) love scarcity. Democraps thrive on scarcity. Democraps depend on scarcity. One of the reason democraps hate Trump so much as that he threatens to make their precious scarcity scarce.
Exactly. And with scarcity comes rationing, and with rationing comes dependence, and with dependence comes loyalty.
Quoth Orwell:
"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it."