why are people liberals?

i keep wondering, why, way down deep people want to be liberals? i know if you're one this must sound awfully smug, but i invite you to do the same to the other side, only you probably already have and know they (we?) are upright, sexually repressed, control freaks, etc. i think that essentially liberals are (ready?) lonely. Lonely and envious. I say envious but what I actually mean is they feel slighted that they somehow have not gotten their "fair share" which oddly they still feell no matter how wealthy they are. if they are wealthy they transfer this feeling of having been slighted to "others" (native peoples, minorities, women, gays, etc) who they need to stand up for and in solidarity with.
Now back to loneliness. Liberals love the idea of community, the idea that the truly functioning human unit is (don't laugh) something like The Shire (hobbits) where low-tech (by choice) unites the community in happy and rewarding work, roles for everyone. And lots of parties where even the fat girls dance. This fantasy is evident in science fiction (often) where Star Trekkers or others come upon an apparently peaceful quasi-medieval society that often integrates some key elements of high tech into their otherwise 16th (?) century life. Lots of goat feeding and rawhide clothes. Maybe they're vegan, but that's not important. But if they eat meat they kill it themselves, praying to its spirit before and after.
So, let's review, lonely and envious. They aren't lonely for everyone. In fact certain types (old white males from Texas for example) aren't desirable as friends (or rulers) though perhaps could be tolerated as a village elder/idiot. The dream of inclusiveness extends to "other tribes" often people they have had no contact with like Maoists in Nepal, or inner city gang lords in Baltimore,... the fantasy is undeterred by "reality" that many of these groups would want nothing to do with them other than to rob and/or rape them. That is irrelevant to the fantasy.
I suspect if one could look at culture in a Freudian (?) way there is a paradox here. On the one hand the last desirable person, let's say that Texan Cowboy Patriarch, is a clear pariah, but at the same time these same people have a "weak spot" for The Good King. The Good King should be young, "of color", etc. but if he qualifies as the Good King our lonely envious liberals are willing to give unto him many of their freedoms. They want desperately to believe he has arrived and will MAKE THINGS BETTER. Their "tribe" has won, is in the White House, so if standards of living decline, so be it, we will all decline into friendly cafe-life Europe together. We'll be poorer but feel better, and we'll all be in the same boat, so many privations can be endured. They know it will hurt the people they don't like (the christian-texan-patriarchal-owners) more than it will hurt them. The rich have farther to fall.
So appeals to loss of liberty will fall on deaf ears.
There is an expression Kill the King, Long Live the King. We shall see how long the fantasy holds. This is probably why our current king is trying to move so fast. he knows the people are fickle and will only love him if he moves radically and quickly so that he cannot easily be deposed as he is our captain and taken us into unfamiliar waters. without him we will be lost.

Unfortunately for the human primate the only way to fight tribalism is with more tribalism which is probably why war will never be obsolete. the other side, feeling as they do ATTACKED and OVERWRITTEN (or written out)... will appeal as survivalists to some primordial group instinct to watch out for their own.

The King is King until a new King arises. A new king would have to see the "chinks" in his armor, places (like christianity) that were must-haves for the old king but signals of subterranean loyalty to an order that excludes them. you see some of this in the debate about gay rights, gay marriage, etc. a new king will have to be more "radical" (perhaps a Queen)... yes, a queen could do it, could claim a territory of authority that has never been owned before. take us to new-new lost territory and be our guide in the darkness.