Healthy, functional, beneficial people (on both the right and the left) tend to explore the negatives in their own psyches, focus on their immediate sphere of influence (friends, family, acquaintances), and tend to probe their own possible shortcomings, even when they are dead on.

Unhealthy, dysfunctional, takers (on both the right and the left) tend to repress their own psychological issues, project those issues on to other people or "the world," and feel self-righteous about their agenda for EVERYBODY (government).