I was thinking of a story my neighbor told me about when she was a kid.  She and her sister (one year younger than her) had to pick berries one summer to pay for their winter coats.  Her sister only lasted a few days, while my neighbor stuck it out the whole summer.  At the end of the summer, she had to use her money to buy herself a winter coat.  However, since her sister did not have the money for a winter coat, their mother bought her one.  My neighbor expressed how she thought that was unfair.  Yet she is a Liberal.  How can she see that childhood situation as unfair, yet consider it right for the government to do the same thing to us. The only difference I can see is that with a Liberal government, the person that worked all summer to buy their own coat also has to pay for the coat of the non-working community member.   I am honestly at a loss for an understanding of why people vote for Liberal candidates and causes.  Is it because they benefit from it and therefore don't care about the fairness of it?  Is it because it does not cost them personally to support others so they can be charitable with someone else's money?  I would actually appreciate an explanation from a Liberal for this discrepancy because I truly do not understand and would like an insider's view of the Liberal principles.