Yes, they want the free stuff, but they really want the preferential treatment, the attention, the singling out, however you want to call it or look at it. It’s almost like the old impotent joke. They want to be important and being treated equally does not make them important. So they gravitate to the people who do not treat them equally regardless of how those people are towards them.
“Yes, they want the free stuff, but they really want the preferential treatment, the attention”
Who is “they”? The Democrats favor collectivism..collecting individuals into groups of “they”.
Republicans, MAGA favor individualism where “they” does not exist as a nebulous non-specified group.
When I moved to Democrat Chicago the first thing I noticed was that everything was blamed on “they” and “them”. Nobody could explain who “they” was.