More than anything, the believer [i.e., the progressive] must constantly rationalize the annoying presence of human happiness around him. Common people who are happy with their circumstances, and who do not see themselves as victims, pose a serious threat to the believer's imagined community membership and thus to his personal identity. In response, the believer must tell himself that these individuals are content with their own society only because they have been brainwashed. In other words, they think they are happy, but in fact they are not. A "false consciousness" that capitalist forces have instilled in them rules them, and they can only be liberated from this mental enslavement by the revolution that the believers have appointed themselves to lead.
(Jamie Glazov, United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror [Los Angeles: WND Books, 2009], 17)
Note from KBJ: I recommend this book.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 