What Democrats suggest they want is not possible. Equality of outcome is irreconcilable with the human condition. As long as there is private property someone will always have something more or something better than someone else. People are and always will be and come from different circumstances, they will think and behave differently. And all the things that make them who they are define the nature in which they will approach labor. And there can be no equality of labor.
Someone will always be better at the same task than someone else. They might be smarter, faster, stronger, more intellectuality agile, have a better eye, a steadier hand, they may try harder to please, or demonstrate some other acuity that separates them and their performance from others. And because you cannot mandate the outcome of labor, you can never regulate equality, except to limit it by force, to the lowest common denominator, where the best anyone is permitted to be is the weakest link in the chain. It is only in this manner that Government can affect an equality of outcome, by force.
It is one of limits, restrictions, of poverty and misery that stifles the human spirit, one deprived of ambition, wholly lacking in value, completely contrary to our nature and to progress of any kind; fear and intimidation do not make for the best outcomes, and yet they are the only motivators left in such circumstances.
Most Democrats refuse to accept this sad truth (and I say most because I believe there are many Democrats who both know this truth, and actively pursue that power regardless.) But most Democrats seem to think there is another end than the one I describe, even though history has never found it. Even as the world teeters in and out of chaos, brought on by decades of similar policies around the globe, and more recently here–that create dependence and misery and then violence when the promise falls apart, they refuse to accept the possibility that everything they believe about the relationship between people and property and government is wrong
But it is wrong. What they seek can only ever result in a race to the bottom, until we are all no better than the worst of us, trapped there by the force of a state that can no longer afford to care or protect its own people, and very likely does not care to.
