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After backing Trump, low-income voters hope he doesn’t slash their benefits
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All well and good to admire the leopard feast, but I'm worried about the fact that once these people are down and out, society is going to have to collectively carry them one way or another.
It's concerning that many people near the edge will fall off it, regardless of their voting position.
It's obviously concerning that since republican policy will be enacted, more will solely be covered via emergency services rather than collective safety nets, which is an overall cost increase to society.
At this point, I'm convinced it's just a matter of regulating food
Every major revolution in history was more or less sparked and accelerated because people were starving. And when you have the choice of starving to death or doing something, anything, then most people will opt for action rather than dying.
So as long as you keep people fed .... you can abuse them, manipulate them, treat them with no respect and take away everything from them and the majority of them won't do a thing ... take away their food however, and they'll lash out like a wild animal.
This also doesn't mean that you keep people well fed ... it just means keeping enough food in their grasp to keep them from revolting.
If they fail to provide food, I think there's a chance a significant enough chunk of people would learn that the right will not help them no matter what. Perhaps that would be enough to crack the fucking propaganda.
Nah they'll keep them fed enough. If they're really smart they'll increase SNAP/WIC spending. It would be a paltry amount compared to what we'll lose from the rich tax breaks and the deportation fiasco.
Although on the other hand that could lose them votes among the working poor who don't have to worry about starving but do, in their heart of hearts, want the bad people to starve.
I think the only way for people to see differently is if the threatened tariffs are put in place and we see the worst inflation in the country's history over the next two years. Then maybe we can get some actual progressives in Congress (unfortunately under the Democrat umbrella) to stem the tide of insanity.
I can see that happening. I don't know if it'll result in a proper progressive wave though. Or instead just more of the same. If people got so fucked by conservatives to turn away from them, they would be incentivised to vote for anything but conservatives. That lets the Democrats win with establishment candidates. I think a shift in the Democratic party is more likely in the in-between period, when things haven't gotten too dire for people yet.
I wish more people realize this.
To the downvotes:
I completely acknowledge that right wing policy is the problem here, and these people brought it about. If anyone deserves consequences, it should be those that actively brought them about.
I am not sympathetic for leopard chew toys, I'm sympathetic for society which has no option but to accommodate them.