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In reply to the discussion: What is the Democratic Party solution to economic inequality? [View all]kentuck
(115,422 posts)...and cut food stamps and do away with the social safety net as it is known today.
They would create a situation where people had no food, no shelter, and no hope. Only then, out of desperation, would the people make any demands upon their government.
People were starving during the Great Depression and they did not revolt against their government or political structures. However, we have become familiar with some token of a safety net, like food stamps, and I'm not sure the citizens of today would be as meek as the citizens of 1932?
In other words, change will only come out of hardship and necessity. It's the nature of our propaganda system to promote the "two team" concept of political Parties. If things get too unbearable under one Party, we will simply choose the other.