What causes otherwise-honest people to condone the political plunder and redistribution of personal property? Immorality? That’s too harsh for my taste. I prefer to say that there is a blind spot in their thinking.
Maybe what we’re dealing with is mob psychology. Perhaps it’s rationalization. “It’s for a worthy cause,” we tell ourselves, oblivious to the fact that the Eighth Commandment doesn’t say “Thou shalt not steal … except by majority vote or unless it’s for the poor.”