Post of the day. Although it's not about dems, it's about collectivists.
I've always believed that liberals (not so much democrats - think Reagan dems) have a big gaping hole in their soul. To make up for it, they wear their emotions on their sleeve and believe if Utopia came about, they would be absolved.
Liberals/socialists/communists/totalitarians will never understand the good that comes from freedom and free enterprise and all the good it creates. Their emotions over-ride their commonsense.
Emotions, greed or sloth... and you're right - much of the problems with liberal elites are NOT shared by working class democrats - who in many ways are more like us...