The 'feel-good' factor of being a socialist

However misplaced it might be, being a socialist has a 'feel-good' factor that of feeling your sympathies are enlarged, for 'them' for 'others'.

Of course the feedback to this feeling which is thelogical althought sporting a secular hat, is 'aren't I a good and caring person.' One migth argue that under the umbrealla of 'caring', like all theology it is essentially self-serving.