Restating for clarity: The primary beneficiaries of socialism are socialist politicians. The leadership of the Dem party is all about the leadership of the Dem party; screw the Dem party rank and file, to he** with the independents and the rest of us are not even on the radar. The primary goal is to take control and then loot the place. When it comes down to it they are just common criminals.
Ayn Rand predicted this scenario in Atlas Shrugged. Little did I know when I first read AS as a 17 yr old in 1958 that I would live to see her fiction become our reality in 2010.
The lessons of AS were supposed to be used by the good guys, not as a template for the bad guys!