The simple answer is this: Wealthy liberals blatantly use social liberalism and big-government regulation to protect their relative positions in society. Big-government regulation and taxation thwart the economic mobility of those trying to move up, allowing the elites to remain elite while still seeming pious for all their apparent efforts to help the little people.

Note that their idea of political action deals always with outcomes, never with principles. They see the federal government as a charitable organization or a tool they can use to reshape society. I’m not impugning motives – this is what they openly profess. Conservatives have an ideal government in mind, one that sticks to the principles of the Founders; liberals have an ideal society in mind, and they will tinker with the government until it creates one.

It’s not hard to find examples. Wealthy liberals fortifying their positions with their Robin Hood policies are in the news every day. One we’re all sick of hearing about is multibillionaire investor Warren Buffet, who supports raising taxes on capital gains and dividends, despite having made his fortune this way. While I respect Warren Buffett and do not begrudge him his wealth and success, he makes a highly disingenuous case for some very destructive policies.