They want government to lead them and everyone else because they believe they cannot live their own lives, or be truly self-reliant or personally accountable for anything in any way. Perfect suckers for a Slick Willie, a Great Father Clinton. And, to the great father's satisfaction, one is born every minute. Leftists and their sympathizers cannot or will not separate the President as the person from the Office of the Presidency. To them, they are one and the same.
Dictatorships are like that too.
Thus, his populist, class-warfare rhetoric, despite the absence of meaningful content or little connection with daily reality, usually does also. Witness the reactions of seemingly thoughtful, intelligent people who support Clinton. They suddenly suspend their reasoning faculties when Clinton's name is spoken. Ironically, these people are the very same ones who can't understand why so many Germans blindly followed a former German Army lance corporal of Austrian extraction surnamed Schicklgruber. A further irony is that Clinton probably needs his followers even more than his followers need him, emotionally that is.