I normally don’t pile on, but am I the only one who has noticed the striking similarity between Ellsworth Toohey and David S?

Note, for example, his reply to Yaron Brook on a BusinessWeek debate over whether or not to cap CEO pay (paraphrasing): “Intereference from government is inevitable. Why not work to make it as good as possible?”

I post this not to bash David S., which is a pointless exercise when talking about a man devoid of a conscience, but I can’t help but wonder what motivates someone to want so desperately to control the personal funds and choices of other people.

This never ceases to puzzle me.

I’m convinced that all the slobbering over helping the poor, wanting to improve the economy, etc is just so much blather, because despite the immense practicality of freedom and capitalism having been demonstrated six thousand ways from Sunday, Progressives like him continue to slither through the cracks with cherry-picked data and an unadmitted moral code which says whatever belongs to X, belongs to everybody (via the government) to do with as those in power think best.

It’s a never-ending mystery. One doesn’t have to be a conservative (I’m not) to wonder why people like him have such an insatiable lust for power. What good is it when you have it?