Benefit now, consequence later
Logan Lamont has an interesting Quadrant piece on what seems like an inexorable drift to the left in the politics of the developed world. The whole piece is well worth reading.
The Logic of the Leftist Voter
In a recent piece examining why intellectuals are drawn to the Left, I argued that the pattern cannot be explained by idealism alone. Intellectuals may be idealistic, often genuinely so, but they operate at a distance from production and consequence and are drawn to systems that elevate their role and reorder outcomes. That logic does not stop with intellectuals. It extends to voters and, in doing so, answers a more confronting question. Why do voters support a political movement that now stretches well beyond economics into positions that would once have seemed implausible, even self-defeating?
The answer begins simply: benefit.
The modern Left provides immediate, tangible gain. Transfers, subsidies, concessions and publicly funded services deliver outcomes that are visible and personal. The individual voter need not subscribe to a broader ideological framework to understand this. The benefit is real, and it is received. The cost is not. It is dispersed across the economy, deferred into debt, or absorbed by those still operating at the productive edge. It does not arrive as a direct exchange tied to the decision. It accumulates slowly, often invisibly, and rarely in proportion to what is taken. This distinction is central. If the full cost arrived with the benefit, behaviour would change. But when the benefit is immediate and the cost is remote, the voter has every reason to support expansion and little reason to restrain it.
Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2026/05/benefit-now-consequence-later.html
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