EVERYTHING leftists do “for our own good / because they know better” has to be done under the radar and by stealth and deception.
I think it simply has to do with their ideological nature and the origin of that nature.
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Sounds as if John was writing about Barack O.