People do things because they want things. This is the first key to understanding almost any human drama, from the course of a love affair to the unfolding of a treasonous plot: they happen because someone hopes to gain by them.
Now, people may be quite catastrophically mistaken about how to get the thing they want: for instance, they might try to increase prosperity by raising taxes, which, as Winston Churchill famously said, “is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” Human beings can be fantastically stubborn. Rather alarmingly, they are often more devoted to their ideas about how to get what they want, than to actually getting what they want. Hence the definition of insanity and, not incidentally, of socialism: doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.
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