Very much like my Spanish great grandfather.
He was born a peasant, was drafted into the Spanish army, was sent to the Philippines and by all accounts was a fine soldier. Upon the Spanish surrender he stayed and through hard work and enterprise became extremely wealthy. He was however a lifelong socialist and anti-American in spite of his success in the system they brought to the islands. A lot of these political attitudes in Europe are religion substitutes and tribal markers.
Bingo! One the people who make up the left left the religion of their youth, they have substituted statism as their new religion. Catholic, protestant or Jew.
As the old saying goes, they are trying to fill a G_d shaped hole in their soul.