The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.
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