[Washi]

The leaders of the left don't appear to fear directing their own lives, as long as they also get to direct others' lives.

They want to impose their will on others. These are the same types that gravitate toward positions of petty power, like home owner's association boards. They have very strong opinions about how everyone else should live.

You theory sounds spot on, however, in regard to the sheep upon whose backs the leftist elites build their power.

[DeprogramLiberalism]

I also explain in the N.C. Essay Series that their are two kinds of liberals - alpha and beta. The leaders are obviously alpha liberals. I explain that in many ways they are even more paranoid than beta liberals are.

[PapaBear3625]

The leaders of the left don't appear to fear directing their own lives, as long as they also get to direct others' lives. They want to impose their will on others. These are the same types that gravitate toward positions of petty power, like home owner's association boards. They have very strong opinions about how everyone else should live.

A communistic planned economy is very attractive to those who are arrogant enough to think that THEY will be the planners.

[X-spurt]

That is very good!

Of course the reasons, just the same as with Soviet Communism, that leaders of the left don’t appear to fear directing their own lives, as long as they also get to direct others’ lives, is because they assume there is finite bounty to be had and they as leaders deserve the lion’s share.

Whereas conservatives, as Reagan so sintinctly stated much better than I, is it is not finite bounty or zero sum gain, rather productive input increases the size of the pie.