Right wingers must always have a bête noire, a childish, fairy-tale monster they can point
to. When you're actually working to undermine the interests of the poor and
middle class, it's all you can do — shriek and say, "Look out, forget
about all that, the socialist, terrorist, humanist boogeyman is coming to get
you and your kids!"
Welfare
recipients make delightful targets for Tea Party venom. They are denied a
voice, so they can’t fight back. And with the Republicans’ billionaire puppet
masters busy wiping the American middle class out of existence, they desperately
need to find somebody else to frame. Poor people make the perfect diversion to
keep ordinary Americans distracted until their crimes are a fait accompli.
As Dave Elizi said, "If the great sin of the left is that we want the
working poor to be able to see a primary care physician, yeah I'll take that
mantle of scorn."
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