I often characterize individual Leftists as characters from The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged...

... but Barney Frank is straight outta Anthem.

"Government doesn't have to interfere with the free enterprise system, but we can work along with it to reduce inequality," Frank said.

Equality, in the sense that Frank uses it, does not mean "equal protection under the law." In fact, it means the opposite.

It means that, no matter how badly you have fugged up your own life, you are entitled to reap the same economic benefits as someone who has made all the right choices.

It means that the government will punish good choices and reward bad ones, as it did in the Soviet Union.

And we saw how that ended, now didn't we?