Don’t count on any charges of “hypocrisy” swaying any leftists away from full support of 0bama.
Leftists don’t even believe in the concept when it comes to their “elite” (of which they all consider themselves part of).
If you want to understand the mindset, think FEUDALISM. They are the nobility, the masses are the peasants. Different rules and laws for both groups.
In their viewpoint:
It is entirely DESIRABLE for them to have different rules.
And, it is entirely NECESSARY for them not to be constrained by the rules place on us. Constraining them would hinder their implementation (imposition) of their “superior vision” on the rest of us.
Exactly right. Kudos. (Whatever kudos means).
And the reason that leftists and liberals cling to their political views is because of social anxieties. they are continuallyin a state of status panic. To accept reason and/or conservative ideas means a loss of social status. That’s it.
It's the progressive vision of rule by "experts". The unwashed masses are too stupid to make their own decisions, that's why they need administrators dictators czars and the like to do the thinking for them.
Almost on target, except that in Feudalism there were real expectations of responsibilities the nobles had to those in their service. Physical protection, access to means of production, grist and sawmills, access to religious duties and places.
The driving issue on the left has always been ‘population control’ or “thinning of the herd”.
Plain and simple, Reforming “health care” is just code speak for eugenics.