Bloodthirsty power.
Kill babies, people and thought
To answer your question : Thirst for power and disdain for people in general, to rob the rich and trap the poor in serfdom.
Probably self hatred, hatred of all society, certainly hatred of their own country.
Hatred of God, others, power hungry.
What motivates the Left is hatred, envy and jealousness of those who are better than them, lust for power and control over others, the joy of killing others,etal.
Trying to attribute rational motives to them is fruitless and misleading. Speaking of those who arent merely “liberal”, they hate the truth, plain and simple. Therefore their motives are completely irrational. They are consistent, however, having the characteristic that they oppose all that is true and therefore all that is good.
A lot of the leaders of the left simply believe in very evil ideas, and some have simply become that.
What motivates the left? Pure unadulterated ambition
“Love for the poor”?? Then go sell what you have..., join a missionary, the peace corps, whatever makes you “feel” good, but do it with your money, not taxpayers. If only all citizens were 10% givers.
Narcissism, envy, and ignorance are the foundational pillars of American liberalism.
Those most enamored of communism/socialism are the least productive members of society who want those goodies that accrue to the most productive. Their agenda is detrimental to a productive society resulting in their attempt to hide that agenda by calling themselves progressives or liberals. These communist/socialists who call themselves progressives or liberals now control both parties and those two parties are rapidly bringing this nation to rule by man, loss of all property and enslavement.
Are we going to allow them continued control of the debate and blissfully accept their utopia?
If they cared about the poor they would donate more than 1% of their income to charity.
Being a Leftist means caring without doing.
Everyone here is referring to “the left” as a monolithic whole in which every one of them is the power hungry control freaks that seek the power to control and oppress every other human on the planet.
What you need to understand, though, is that there are the “sheeperals” that sit out here and empower and defend the leadership/control freaks for a completely different reason.
The sheeperals, being leftists as well, reject the truth of God. (Rom 1:25 “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.”)
In doing so, they HAVE NO REASON TO MATTER in this “accidental” existance. Hand in hand with this is the visceral understanding of sinfulness coupled with the “intellectual” rejection thereof. They want to believe in the lie that “I’m a good person”, and spend their lives trying to justify that lie.
Supporting people who SAY their motivation is “helping the poor” gives the sheeperals a reason to matter. It’s the same reason they latch onto the Global Warming religion - a reason to matter and a justification of “I’m a good person”.
Think about how many members of the radical Left are children of wealth, like Ayers and his wife.
The real objective of the radical left is to make it impossible for a smart, energetic person of modest means to become wealthy, and possibly displace some of the old elite via competition.
Neither. That want the whole world dependent upon them. For instance oil companies. They don’t hate oil-in fact most libs have a bigger “carbon footprint” than anyone else.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2007/02/gores_carbon_fo.html
what they hate are “oil companies” whom everyone else is dependent upon...which makes it hard for the libs to control.
Basically Liberalism is the collective manifestation of all the worst of the individual crazy control freaks you’ve ever met in your life.
If they were honest, the Dems would admit their constituency is made up of a lot of whiners and people who feel life hasn’t been fair to them. They should be millionaires and not the people who actually are millionaires through dint of hard work. Human nature. many people are just jealous of what other people have. Which is why there will always be a Dem party. Or the Thief Party as I call it now. Here in Wisconsin the Dems (especially teachers union members) are boiling mad that Scott Walker made them contribute to their retirement and health fund. And they’re really mad that Walker’s reforms worked. So they’ve got a bunch of candidates who are lying about what Walker did, and are promising to steal the money back for the teachers. Which would plunge the state back into billions of dollars of debt. These people are shameless.
A lot of rich socialists out there. They love socialism because it locks out their competition.
Hatred, of course.
I have systematically purged every liberal acquaintence from my life. Not only are they actively trying to destroy my country, they are the angriest, most spiteful and jealous people I know.
Wrong choices given.
The absolute convictions that
(1) they are smarter, superior than you and me; therefore they ought to be in charge of everything;
and (2) all others are just ‘tools’ to be used as they see fit, all for the greater good, of course.
Of course, they don't understand that the number of slavemasters would be very few and that, even though they voted to enslave “them,” they would also be under the lash.