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> "...the reason for democratic representation in general is that humans have a hard time giving real weight to others' priorities. They'll help them when they can, but certainly not if it involves real costs and trade-offs to their own, obviously far more important interests..."

I apologise if this draws away from the primary point of your comment, but I thought this was quite poignant. It's a sentiment that manages to convey my intuition about the motivation behind hard-line anti-socialist groups, and also has the added bonus of explaining why "feel-good" one-off donation/volunteering stories in the media are so popular. People like to pat themselves on the back for helping others, as long as they aren't inconvenienced. People like to praise social constructs that help others, as long as they don't encourage constructs that inconvenience themselves.