I think I can answer that for you, having been a Democrat for the first half of my life.

1 - Growing up is hard. We get our first glimpses of the "unfairness" of life. Johnny has NIKEs and we can only get an off-brand. Billy has a smart phone and we can't afford a cell phone. The big question first occurs to us; why should one person have so much and others have so little? Tom has a letter sweater because he has a car and can stay after school for sports and we have to take the school bus or walk miles to get home. Tom's letter sweater gets him all kinds of female attention that we don't get.

2 - As young people, we see former classmates head off to college and they will become doctors and lawyers and we will become mechanics and retail clerks because we can't begin to afford that kind of education. They will be able to buy the fanciest cars and nicest houses and we will have to be satisfied with second hand cars and old houses in need of repairs.

3 - By the time we find ourselves settled into our lives, raising our kids and paying our mortgages, we have either accepted that life isn't fair or we decide that we are going to force fairness onto life. The only power in the world that can manage such a task is the government. The government can divide up the benefits more evenly by taking from those who have "too much" and giving it to those who "deserve" more.


For the last 60 years, the Government has been consistently under the control of those who have never been able to accept that life isn't fair.

It begins in grade school. The children are told, not that diligence and energy will bring you a successful life but that you deserve to be equally rewarded for participating in life. They insist that the only reason we don't get our fair share is because the rich keep everything for themselves and force us to do their bidding, if we want to survive at all.

One more line of thought gets us to the realization that only the government wields the power to make life "fair".

What they don't tell us is that to guarantee that we get our fair share we must surrender all of our rights and all of our energies to the state. They also neglect to tell us that they will determine what our rights and our fair share is to be. In olden times, they had a word for that life situation. They called it s***ery.