Loneliness and the Left

Sometimes, often, I wonder what motivates someone to be a leftie. I assume the "conventional wisdom" that the left people are smart. Smart means observant. A smart person should be able to see that leftism doesn't work, that regulation doesn't make us freer, that protection does not protect, that equality never happens. But yet, no observation of "reality" penetrates. So what is it?

I think I found what it is.
It is loneliness.
Isn't the right as lonely as the left? Generally, no. The religious right are the least lonely of all, they have Jesus. They have God. What's to be lonely about? The libertarians, embittered in a sense, accept their loneliness: Leave me alone! they say. They are the disappointed and the misanthropic. They "see" (observe) how "help" does not help and say the less the better.
The rest of the right is in the middle, some God (but not too much), some "leave me alone" (in their mocked "gated communities"). The left calls this selfish, but they see themselves as tribal.

Now let's go back to the left.
Mostly the left is secular. I know this isn't totally true, but I suspect the gods or God that support the left are somehow less present and comforting than the God on the right. The irreligous man/woman is vulnerable. They want to belong. They are disppointed in family (who isn't?). They want community, though they see even the smallest committee is generally a kind of hell. They want peace, dialogue with the enemy, at almost any price. They are conflicted enough, angry enough, sad enough, who needs a war on top of it? Most of all they crave something large and functioning that they can trust. Where else to go but the government?
Despite its profusion of dysfunction departments: ex-soldiers can't get medical care, FEMA flubs Katrina, financial oversight a mess, tax law at 63,000 pages of code, etc. they are undaunted in their belief that, no matter how bad, a government-run health care system has to be BETTER than what we have now. They have very little evidence for this. The biggest factor in this belief in government comes from the fact that it is the last place to turn for this feeling of not being alone. Call it family or community, it's a projection of our desire to be protected.
It's why populations rarely kick out dictators. Somewhere in their hearts, they want the guy to succeed, they want him to prove others wrong. He is a good guy, mostly good. Sure he steals a little, a lot, but he loves the people. And they usually have some evidence (eg. health care in Cuba).