"The truly evil, sick side of this is that people use this desire for righteousness to manipulate the sheeperals into supporting policies whose real goal is to disallow “commoners” the use of ANY resources, because those resources “rightfully belong to” the elite." Often when you get to use Cui Bono: Cui bono /kwiːˈboʊnoʊ/ "to whose benefit?", literally "as a benefit to whom?" Some really dark sides of these bastards flows out.
There is a dichotomy on the left between the sheeperals and those who consider themselves to be the elite.
Cui bono may be “who benefits”, but that benefit is different for each of these groups.
Sheeperals, as I said, benefit by getting their self-righteousness.
Elites, the truly evil, benefit by eliminating competition for resources.