Ultimately almost all who gravitate toward big government, while in its employ as ‘leaders’, are egoists who are consciously or unconsciously attempting to increase their own ‘importance’ in the world. They seek to feature themselves as world saviors, while at the same time trying to meld the rest of us into a dependent mass of indistinguishable homogeneous drones. This is the formula of communist ‘leaders’, and is the same formula of most leftists in this country. They are jealous of the successful, because the successful take away from the glory they seek. They have no desire to be ‘public servants’. They need to be adored. It is an incredibly immature and destructive personality type, but is rampant on the left.
One of the most important weapons when dealing with these people is to ridicule their knowledge. It is very important to them that they feature themselves as being wise and knowledgeable. This is partially why they hate Limbaugh so much. He is bright, and he points out how wrong and lacking in knowledge they are, and the absurdity of their positioning of themselves as ‘geniuses’.
Had some interesting exchanges with a “Zinn-head” on facebook. You have it correct. Can’t burst their bubble that you might have more knowledge than them.