By Patrick J. Buchanan, The American Conservative - Democrats, as the Party of Government, egalitarian and neo-socialist, have come to see their role as redistributing wealth from those who have too much — to those who have too little… The mission of Democrats is to reduce those inequalities. And as the very rich are also the very few, in a one-man, one-vote democracy the Democratic Party will always have a following.. Winston Churchill called this the philosophy of failure and the gospel of envy.