POWER......................
Mental illness.
There are two kinds of people in the world.
Those who just want to be left alone, and those who just won’t leave them alone.
Most of the Left fits into the latter category, which is, basically, power.
They want to have power over others.
Definitely envy, complicated by the will to power and megalomania.
Linda Loooooo ... knows.
Psychosis.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. ~Aristotle
They’re the types that want someone else to do things, so they can completely abdicate responsibility for their lives and that of others. As long as they can, they will look for someone to take care of them and handle ‘unpleasant’ things. If someone like a family member needs help, they turn their backs because they ‘just can’t handle’ things and another facet is a kind of wanting someone else to do the necessary, but at the same time, don’t like ‘ugly’ methods or ‘ugly’ words or again, ‘unpleasant’ things.
Each and every single day is about being surrounded by pretty pleasant things. They want to make no effort. This is why a lot of suburban housewives vote Democrat, even as their husbands slave away to continue to provide a nice life, even as taxes climb more and more upwards. They also think that they can uplift the losers, but don’t want to do the work themselves and like to leave things to other people. It’s a chronic determination to be ignorant about what other people (like the working class) think and go through.
As for their kids, they’ll fight against busing and integration since their brats (future world leaders) are the ones that would face it. They’re the types that won’t believe that THEIR kids are capable of bad things and could end up being bad people. They just want others to foot the bill for their free ride in life. They don’t WANT to know about the realities of day to day life for working class whites; they don’t mind a member of the working class to fix things and work, but the idea of letting them socialize with them is abhorrent.
It’s a deliberate immature ignorance that makes them unwilling to grow up.
I think for a lot of lefties the fear of not being included. Whether it is the all important cocktail party or friends at Starbucks.
NEITHER! The basic principle liberals operate under is that there is a giant ball of wealth which is constant and stagnant. The rich 1% own lion’s share of that wealth ball.
What the liberals do not understand is that wealth in any country is not stagnant and constant. Wealth has to be created every hour, every day, every month, every year. Manufacturing, mining, agriculture and applied research are the major wealth creators. All of them must be nurtured and encouraged. And that requires there must be a reward to those who work to keep the effort going.
Taxes and regulations are hindrance to wealth creation.
Envy and greed are merely attributes of the same sin.
Hatred of God and love of Satan?
Power over other people.
Pride. They are insufferably righteous about being right.
Look at Obamacare’s hideous website malfunction and the CBO’s disasterous employment projections.
The left will not admit this Thing needs to file thirteened.
It does, but they will never admit it.
Both...plus a lot of hatred.
If you think about it, the Democrat party has long been the “Seven Deadly Sins” party.
Lust
Gluttony
Greed
Sloth
Wrath
Envy
Pride
However, in all fairness, they have enlarged the list to incorporate ever more sinful acts.
Tyranny
Dehumanization
Human Sacrifice
Genocide
Philistinism
Racketeering
Surveillance
Treason
National Immolation
My dear old Dad was a lefty for forever. I didn’t realize it until I matured and was able to “see” his faults, but still love him because after all, he was only human.
But I could never fathom his rants and tirades against doctors, and other professional people. He hated them. He ridiculed them, he called them “greedy ba$$tards.”
One day, I interjected that those folk spent YEARS of study and hard work to get to where they were at. The explosion was instant and profound.
My mother later pulled me aside and told me to not discuss or argue with him on those issues.
Jealousy drove him. His hatred for professional or educated people was right on the surface.
Enter me, he was proud as hell when I got the education I got, but on unguarded moments, out it came. “So, you think you’re better than the ‘workin man’?”
When I reminded him that I “worked” too, and real hard, (which he knew) his face would go purple and he would go silent.
He was not a greedy man, but his union bosses were. Pop just could NOT bring himself to see that those scumbags, who “took” his hard earned dollars, were actually worse than the corporate pigs he worked for, hated and who “paid” him really well.
I know lefties are greedy as hell, and they DON’T want to work for it. But my experience was that many of the rank and file, like my dad, were driven by simple envy.
GREED! Always greed as you notice that none of the liberals in congress or state gov’t ends up poor after getting into office.
Ambivalence, (having two conflicting emotions at the same time), is also part of the typical Juvenile Liberal stunted emotional development.
Thus, to your question: Greed or Envy? The answer is YES!
After all, where would B. Hussein be without the conflicting emotions of Love and Hate; Admiration and Class Envy; and, of course, Truth and Lies.