[bubman]

It is precisely the mechanics of this moral elitism that produces a superstructure of political elitism, the coercive rule of self-appointed experts, which is what every socialist government to date has been. What the Left has always condemned "capitalism" for most profoundly is its legal egalitarianism, its "formal equality" -- that is, its granting of political equality to moral unequals. In such a society, a Catharine MacKinnon has no more power than anyone else to censor others. Would-be Lenins and Maos and Castros are reduced to the Man on the Street. Each citizen controls his own property, and no cete of socialists is authorized to redistribute that wealth according to any scheme.

And this ladies & gents summerizes the fundamental problem with the democratic party. Elitists to the core addicted to power and denyers of true egalitarianism (he equality of opportunity for all through the ownership of property).

[snarks_when_bored]

I'll post this before somebody else does:

"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. [Hillary] Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

Fits the passage you quoted, huh, bubman?