Wholly Selfish Reasons

Progressives are not all alike, of course, but this much they appear overwhelmingly to have in common: they believe that people like them should run the world; that in that event the great mass of humanity would be better off; and that whenever the progressives do not hold dominant political power, it is entirely because the people they dislike, especially the rich people they dislike, have corrupted the system for wholly selfish reasons, thwarting the will of the people and obstructing a great variety of measures by which the government might have been employed to make the world a better place.