The liberal “equality Procrustean Bed”. In Greek mythology Procrustes (the first known “progressive”?) was a bandit who forced his victims to fit his iron bed. Those too tall were cut off to fit, too short were stretched to fit… such is liberalism and their destructive view of “equality”. In both cases the result is agony for the “beneficiary”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes
In their first year the Pilgrims tried socialism/communism and damn near died of starvation. When they reverted to a more free wheeling enterprise baased approach they began to prosper.