Leftists believe what they do because they accurately assess themselves as incapable of competing as individuals and seek the protection of the herd. Since this is obviously humiliating they further seek to make herd membership compulsory so that they cannot be faulted for being do inadequate.
Individuals with personal strength and self-worth shun the herd and are anathema to the world view of sheep. The left hates such people because they hold a mirror to the inadequacies of leftists.
They don’t like competition and love collectivism.
They have replaced laissez-faire genius with political organized vigilante behavior of thugs.
It’s why they love illegals and welfare militants. Slavery and blind stupidity they worship: don’t pay attention to the road, just make sure your hands are pretty on the steering wheel. It’s why they love the concept of the human bomb, suicide bomb.
I disagree. I know many successful liberals. They are wealthy and well off. They believe in their abilities but do NOT believe others are just as capable. They believe government exists to "help" those they see as incapable.
Those are the elitists. They believe themselves far above the rest of us and surely those they seek to "help".
They have gone about creating a class of people who rely on them for their subsistence. This accomplishes two things: It makes them feel good about themselves giving them a false sense of superiority. And, it creates a group of people who laud them and look up to these liberals for their needs perpetuating the cycle.
Liberals are easily explained: They have inflated egos and need to keep those egos fed. The easiest way is to create subjects.
The one thing they do fear are those of us who are capable of doing for ourselves. They fear their "help" will not be needed and as a result they would get no "energy" from our adulation.
Liberals are not complicated. They seek control. Plain and simple.
They seek fealty.
They seek to subjugate. They need subjects to sit at their feet and look up to them.
Good post. I’ve worked around a lot of liberals over the years and fundamentally there seems to be a common thread running through all of them. They see themselves as morally and intellectually superior to the rest of us backward “hayseeds”. They are the enlightened ones who have a spiritual duty to guide the rest of us.
Your point about liberals being incapable of competing, fearing humiliation and being faulted ties right in with the superiorist theme. Liberals hate those who challenge their self perception of superiority.
Do you know any humble liberals who don’t have a superiority complex? Liberals have an irresistable urge to judge and blame everyone as criticizing their “inferiors” makes them fell even more superior. Look at Obama for a prime example of this.