Mixed-up Marxism

The other day (I believe it was Sunday) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was giving a speech in San Francisco at a democrat fundraiser to some wealthy people. She said something to the effect of "We're going to have to take away from you [the wealthy] to make life better for the greater public." (I'm sorry I don't have the exact quote). I've been thinking about this quote and the underlying philosophy that goes along with it and I must say that I'm quite disturbed by what I'm discovering.



Undoubtedly the concept that Sen. Clinton is espousing is the communist/marxist idea that if we make all people equal then life will be better for everyone. The difference between Sen. Clinton (and most democrats) and Marxist philosophy is that in Marxist model it is the lower working classes (the proletariat) that revolt and bring down the upper class (the bourgeois). In the Clinton/democrat model it is the rich that bring down the rich in order to make life better for everyone. Undoubtedly there are inherent problems in both models - hence why marxism/communism has been proved as a failed system in practice - but the democrat model has a few underlying problems that causes it to fail before it even begins.



In the democrat model the wealthy have to agree to become un-wealthy, to be taxed or give up their money and prestige willingly. From studies of human nature we know that very few people are willing to give up power once they have it. Yet the democrats - many of whom happen to be very rich - believe that this human characteristic is reversible, if only by force of law. The confusing part is that many democrats that are not politicians actively agree with this philosophy. My question is why are people willing to believe this philosophy that goes against human nature? In thinking about it I believe that I've found an answer to this question. The truth of the matter is that the democrats are not asking for the rich to give up power or even most of their money, they are instead telling the rich (and everyone else) where to spend their money. The heart of the issue is not that everyone should be equal, which is the spin the democrats love to put on it, but that the people with power should decide who gets what money and in which way. It is the idea that because they are in power they have a better idea of how we should spend our money and thus by tax law they are forcing us to do so. It is not about relinquishing power and making everyone equal, it's about sustaining power so that nobody can get up from where they are. Maybe my premises are off base, but it seems that while the democrats are out there trying to sound compassionate, they are really selfish about who can be one of them.