I'm reading the latest book in the Monster Hunters International series titled "Guardian". There is a small description of the Portuguese government that made me think, "This is exactly how our own liberals think." See excerpt below:
The little I know of the Portuguese system of government was that it's the same kind of controlling, super-regulating state as most of Europe. But the feeling I was starting to get from the people told me that while they vote for jerks who regulated everything, they were convinced this was needed so other people behaved properly, while each individual by himself had the absolute certainty that the rules didn't apply to them. Each individual was an anarchist in a country that wanted to control everything. - Monster Hunter Guardian by Larry Correia and Sarah A Hoyt - Simon & Schuster Books
It seems that each liberal believes that when their dreamed of utopia is achieved, that they will be the one at the top making the decisions for everyone else. Now that the rules they adopted are being applied to them as well...well...that's an outrage.