Both parties get votes from the "center" by promising to be tough on crime, to keep taxes low, and to stop those welfare cheats from living high off the hog at the working man's expense. As long as that's the narrative BOTH parties are using to get votes (and Hillary is already exploiting that narrative of "the center" the "value of hard work"
, people on welfare will continue to be stereotyped, shamed, literally tortured by situations that make no sense and drive them toward homelessness and make them mentally ill, and potentially set them up as targets for mob violence in times of scarcity.
WTF America! Could you please get a grip and start going after Corporate Welfare and the trust fund babies who will benefit all the more from the Paris Hilton Estate Tax Break?
There is a national obsession with monitoring, tracking, judging, disciplining, depriving, and over-scheduling anyone who doesn't have the connections to get into a good job. Of course there are lots of sucky minimum wage jobs out there - but these start you on the cycle of loss of autonomy to govt. bureaucracies (since you can't make a livelihood), the chaos of irregular hours, ill health from frequent job turnover/night shifts/bouts of homelessness and sleeping in your car...until you are broken and can't hold down those simple jobs anymore. Right now these people are viewed as ones who need to get organized and learn good work habits to get back in the game. I wish there was also some way they could also be viewed as victims of neglect and abuse so "whipping them back into shape" would be understood for the counterproductive (and largely ineffective) solution that it is. I'm not sure what the answer is, but in a big picture way I feel justice would be the compensation of a better working environment. (And perhaps some handholding to get back into it considering the trauma that drove them out).
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