“Leftists are convinced that salvation lies in objects”….more generally, they believe that *moral attributes*, good or bad, are attached to objects. An example of this could be seen in the debate, shortly after 9/11, about whether airline pilots should carry guns. It was clear that to many leftists, a GUN was an icon of such negative power that having one under the control of the Captain was more frightening than the prospect of a terrorist having control of the airplane.

Their view of people is as a group to be manipulated for the Leftists own ends.  They don’t view individuals, for if you do, you may see that helping others to gain self sufficiency is far better than enslaving them to a handout.  

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“Throughout socialistic literature there is the well-known insistence upon the materialistic interpretation of history – a conception based upon a hunger for things of material enjoyment, and for more and more of them. Fundamentally, they have as much centred their aim on an increase in material possessions as the veriest Napoleon of finance in Wall Street. An existence in which the acquisition of more material wealth is of very large – if not of chief – importance is in the thoughts of both. The ends sought for by the socialists are not, in effect, different from those of the mass of non-socialists who are striving to acquire wealth in order to have ease and leisure for enjoyment. Agreeing in their aims, their differences – which seem to most persons to place them as wide apart as the poles – really consist in choosing different means of accomplishing their ends. … On the other hand, the socialist proposes to overturn industrial competition and the institution of private property in the hope – vaguely outlined and not economically analyzed – of transferring the use of wealth from those who have to those who have not.”

I won’t call it a personality disorder, but I will call it extremely ugly.
 

I think you just said the Left is evil. Which is what I have said, of course.

And now that I have lived in the South for a few months I have discovered that Southerners sneer at places like Durham because almost no one living there is from the South.