Projection
"They are the hard-working, ambitious, far-seeing, creative, innovative, people. Everyone else needs to be led, because, poor things, they just don’t know what’s good for them and they’re too lazy and weak and stupid to seize it for themselves."
Really? Which political ideology behaves like the American people are children that have to be cared for and guided cradle-to-grave? Thinks that we can't be relied on to make our own choices? Thinks we have to be told how to eat, what to buy, and everything else? Thinks that our money in our own hands will be spent "wrong?" That government is something we "belong to?"
Liberals think people need to be "led." Conservatives think people need to be let go.
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Sen. Hillary Clinton, 2004