Because our political leaders love to preach to us about the need to make sacrifices for the common good. What they really mean, of course, is that the lower orders, not themselves, are the people who need to make the sacrifices. This is probably why we despise them as much as we do, because we know that true leadership in any enterprise requires the willingness to lead by example.
On the subject, I still vividly remember watching Dick Cheney on C-SPAN, back in the '80s when he was still the Congressman from Wyoming, claiming assertively in the well of the House that South Africa would be a Soviet client state within a decade if Mandela was ever freed. I've looked for video of it all over the Intertubes, but have yet to find it. It's unfortunate, because I always felt that it should have been re-broadcast every single day of the Bush administration---to remind voters of the vision and foresight of the evil men who governed us.
---Baron V
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