[randita]

Liberals just don't seem to understand it, or if they do, they're intent on cheating other people out of that fantastic feeling.

They cheat others out of it because it selfishly makes them feel good by giving other people's money (i.e. the tax payers) away. How giving someone's else's money away makes a liberal feel compassionate, I'll never understand.

Also, they do it to extort votes.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

it selfishly makes them feel good by giving other people's money (i.e. the tax payers) away. How giving someone's else's money away makes a liberal feel compassionate, I'll never understand.

IMHO it doesn't truely make them feel compassionate, it couldn't. What it does make them feel, IMHO, is powerful.

Also, they do it to extort votes

. . . and that really makes them feel powerful!

But the interersting question is why the middle-class liberal (a minority among the middle class, but not a small one) wants to enable the scamming hot-shots who do this. I think it's a vicarious thrill of power, myself--but ya gotta be hard up for a power trip to inflict that on your children/grandchildren.