Guilt

From AtlanticBlog:

In the New York Times editorial pages, no less, there is a piece on how guilt obsessed much of the hard core left is. I got shipped off to Catholic schools as a kid, and there the guilt was supposed to make you feel lousy. For the hard left, it is some sort of thrill. ...

The old Catholic school message was "We are better than you, so feel guilt." The hard left version is "We feel guilt, so we are better than you." Go figure.