I think you're mischaracterizing the motivations of (most) progressives. I don't believe that they are motivated by a desire to punish the privileged.
There is a difference between supporting policies that hurt people and supporting those policies because they hurt people. Progressives, like most other political actors, support plenty of policies that hurt people, but I don't think it's accurate to say they support them because they hurt people.
An example from the other side: A lot of social conservatives support bans on gay marriage. I think these bans hurt people unnecessarily, but I don't think their supporters want to hurt people, or are motivated by a desire to hurt people.
I think you're mischaracterizing the motivations of (most) progressives. I don't believe that they are motivated by a desire to punish the privileged.
Read what progressives like Ezra Klien actually write.
In the big survey, political views are divided into large categories so that statistics are possible. This article is an attempt to supply a text field so that we can get a little better view of the range of beliefs.
My political views aren't adequately expressed by "libertarian". I call myself a liberal-flavored libertarian, by which I mean that I want the government to hurt people less. The possibility that the government is giving too much to poor people is low on my list of concerns. I also believe that harm-causing processes should be shut down before support systems
So, what political beliefs do you have that don't match the usual meaning of your preferred label?