It’s what you get when you vote for the free lunch.
I’m convinced that a majority of the voters are unknowingly kleptomaniacs - they vote for politicians who promise to steal for them.
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
- Frédéric Bastiat