“What I’m getting at is that these socialist policies aren’t entirely an outcome predicated by a set of clearly-defined political beliefs, but something more akin to psychology and collective national history that’s harder to pin down and therefore also more difficult to argue against. I’ve tried.”
Maybe it goes back to Marie Antoinette and “let them eat cake”.
:’) It’s the same story with the partisan dolts who buy into global warming demagogues.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_334.html