The thesis of the state socialist is that no line may be drawn between private and public affairs which the state may not cross at will; that omnipotence of legislation is the first postulate of all just political theory.This is what Democrats believe.
Woodrow Wilson
I fart in her general direction
Today's Democrats aren't even concerned with actually legislating something if the don't have the votes. Just get a court to order it or an executive like Obama with a pen and a phone.