Leftists' need for self-congratulation is perpetuating the misery of illegal aliens

It's often said that leftism is really all about a lust for power.

I submit that that's one of two strata regarding what motivates someone to become a leftist. People are either driven to it by an overweening need for self-congratulation - to perceive themselves as caring - or by a desire to boss other people around and be in charge of whether they have access to life's basic resources or not.. There are a lot of people on the cusp between the two motivations. Think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Some seem to have been driven by the latter motivation from the get-go. Think Stalin, Mao and Castro.

But there's nothing admirable about the self-congratulation motive. It keeps those about whom one "cares" in pitiable circumstances in perpetuity. It gives a resolute thumbs-down to actual solutions to the plight of the beleaguered. A solution is the last thing self-congratulatory leftists want; they're thereby deprived of the opportunity to see themselves as champions of "social justice."

A perfect example is on the nation's plate this very day:

Employees of the online housewares giant Wayfair announced Tuesday that they would stage a walkout at the company’s Back Bay headquarters on Wednesday to protest its decision to sell furniture to the operators of facilities for migrant children detained at the southern US border.

Last Wednesday, they learned that a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture had been placed by BCFS, a government contractor that has been managing camps at the border. More than 500 employees signed a letter of protest sent to company executives. When the company refused to change course, employees organized the walkout.

“Knowing what’s going on at the southern border and knowing that Wayfair has the potential to profit from it is pretty scary,” said Elizabeth Good, a manager on the engineering team at the company and one of the walkout’s two dozen organizers. “I want to work at a company where the standards we hold ourselves to are the same standards that we hold our customers and our partners to.” 

The mention of profit was a nice touch, no? That the detained illegal aliens' comfort level was going to be considerably improved is a fact that these snot-noses would like to keep obscured. Can't have anybody making the connection that that - not the camps in and of themselves - is what the company would be profiting from. That might open the door to someone considering the viewpoint that it's a fine thing for a furniture company to be in the business of ameliorating misery.

Everyone who is not stupid knows that Congress - you know, the one in which AOC, who's been front and center among the preeners on this matter, sits - holds the key to better conditions for detained illegal aliens. Everyone who's not wickedly disingenuous also knows that the conditions now are exactly as they were during the Obama administration.

If there's one question these "compassion"-mongers are deathly afraid of, it's this: Fine, what would you have everyone do? That question has to be kept under lock and key at all costs, because the answer is, Let them all just come in with no processing or anything, so that the number of people confirming our self-perceived big-heartedness swells, and those among us interested in power get enough votes that there's no stopping us.