[HitmanLV]

How had it come to this? Why did liberals who were supposedly advocates of egalitarianism collude in this blatantly repressive aspect of British social and political life? How did they reconcile their commitment to socialism, which I had always understood as being about the liberation of humanity, with a romanticizing of what anyone in his right mind should have seen as a cruelly inadequate and culturally degraded way of life?

That's the question, really. The best answer I can come up with is that it naturally fits their own (self serving) worldview.

That is, for the types that advocate such ideals, they envision equality - that is, most people are at a basic level of sustenance, education, profession, finance. They take it completely for granted that they are better than that and somehow deserve a higher standard of living than most of these equal people.

So for them, even if they can't come to terms with it, equality means that most people get a fairly equal standard of living (a fairly low one), but that they somehow deserve more (even though they are architects and advocates of such an egalitarian vision).

As to what drives this, I can only speculate. Academics are notably leftist, for example, and I have always felt (based on my experience in college and grad school) that they feel themselves as more intelligent than most people, and therefore more deserving, and they are unable to cope with the fact that 'lesser people' in their minds might enjoy a more successful income, a better lifestyle, have more attractive spouses, better homes, or simply have a brighter outlook on life.

For me, this isn't a matter of intelligence - it's a matter of maturity. That is to say, most of us have come to terms with the fact that some people do better than others for a variety of reasons. It doesn't compromise our ability to do well in our lives, for example, to know that someone else is doing much better.

Their failure is primarily one of maturity. "It's not fair...." has been quietly accepted by the majority of folks for thousands of years. Our best and brightest, it consistently appears, are unable or unwilling to cope with that truth.

[Blind Eye Jones]

"It's not fair" -- Not only are they unwilling to cope with that truth but they perpetuate it through their elitism and hypocrisy. Their lack of maturity is more about a bad conscience: on one hand supporting equality as socialism and on the other their impulse to raise themselves above it, hence the term Limousine Liberal. They buy into the American dream but are at odds with it. But odds are they they know this and are happy supporting a cause that makes them hypocrites. Why? Because they are rich hypocrites which is better than being poor hypocrites... if Gods asks they can always say, "We're all fallen... and I tried, honestly... my heart was in the right place."