[MrB]

They “support” feeling good about themselves as “good people” because the advocate for “the poor” getting healthcare for free.

To a sheeperal, the self-righteousness is the key goal. It doesn’t matter one whit whether the policy will work or not.

[KC Burke]

T. Sowell's book The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (1995) makes the same point. They are the only ones who "care" so it is only their planned solution that should count.

We have foreign broadcasters and celeberaties commenting on our national course that have no concept of our history, culture and system of government.

Piers Morgan didn't know Barack was lying -- how stupid does he claim to be.