While some of the methodologies are more than questionable, and some of the practical applications Draconian, there are a sizeable number of Democrats who want, overall, to help individuals, countries, the planet, etc.
The ways in which they want to do these things may be more harmful (by far) than helpful but their hearts are in the right place. Most of us want clean water, clean air, stopping the violence, an emphasis on remediation and helping people to be productive citizens who are striving to make the world ‘better’. We don’t want people to work all their lives and then have what they earned taken away arbitrarily; we also don’t want people to avoid work all their lives and yet live with more material goods and opportunities than people who have literally worked themselves to death yet barely managed to keep a cardboard shack over their heads. We don’t want huge corporations fouling our waters, polluting our air and oceans, while a tiny percent of the workers get huge sums and the people who actually DO the work can’t even make a minimum wage. But we don’t want such huge sanctions and oversights that corporations cannot supply demand for necessary goods, or where a person whose work is incredible has no chance for recognition or a ‘bonus’ but is kept on a par with somebody who barely can crank out an adequate good.
It’s walking a tightrope.
Above all, we want to be good stewards and that includes not killing off the unborn and elderly and ‘disabled’ because their quality of life isn’t ‘sufficient’ to justify the ‘resources’ to help them live.
I’d like some of them to extend the empathy they obviously feel toward the marginalized and include some who have become ‘unpersons’ because they are felt to ‘impede’ the choice of those more important. . .