Or, how do-gooders morph into do-badders. All it needs is enough misdirected money.
Those watermelons were never do-gooders, they just played the part long enough for the fools to open the cash drawer.
When you have no love for country or fellowman, the only place to turn is inward and to the money.
All the supporters of socialism assume because of their support, they will be among the socialist elite dining on the honey the ignorant worker bees produce.