Comment by 7bit
21 days ago
It's a systemic issue that can be solved with one unanimous vote in Congress, that will NEVER happen in the foreseeable future.
21 days ago
It's a systemic issue that can be solved with one unanimous vote in Congress, that will NEVER happen in the foreseeable future.
That's because Americans believe that poor people are poor because they just didn't care enough to be rich.
This might have been true 200 years ago, when there was a whole unexplored continent to exploit, but it's less true now.
Poor people are voting for policies that directly harm them because they don’t want other poor people and the “illegals” to benefit.
I think that's the same mentality, "yes I'm poor now, but I'll get the break I deserve soon enough, and I don't want all these undesirables to benefit when I do".