"Ideas have consequences!" Weaver
The "idea" of "redistribution" by imperfect persons in government relies on an assumption which is flawed, which has never been proven to work in any society where it has been implemented, and makes all but the political elites dependent slaves to their "masters" in government.
America's Constitution, on the other hand, relies on the idea of Creator-endowed individual life, rights, liberty and laws to protect them. It puts individuals, who make up the "We, the People" of the Constitution's Preamble, in charge of those imperfect people elected to positions of power in government, giving them only limited opportunity to exert power over "the People."
Now, why can't those super-intelligent "progressives" understand that? (Sarc) Oh, by the time they've had their brief stint in power on this earth, they don't really care about the freedom of their own posterity? Say it isn't so!!
What’s sad, and scary, is almost half of the people polled still worship obama and will vote for him again. When I think of what the founders of this country were up against, it makes me admire them even more. A third neutral, a third with the Brits, leaving only a third to fight the battles. So, I guess we’re a little better off than they were.