Poor people are like animals. If you feed them, they will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves. And if you believe that, you are either dumb or a conservative, likely both.
This nugget of wisdom came from the Facebook page of a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona’s 3rd District, Gabriela Saucedo Mercer. She must have found this comparison to be of the quality one might describe as epiphanous.
Modern conservatism is what stupid people mistake for deep philosophical thought. It’s thinking without the thinking, and today mostly consists of moral self-stroking through witty denigration of the poor.
In this circular world of conservative wittiness, the beauty in this way of thinking is that poor people deserve to be poor, which conveniently absolves us of our public obligation to them.
FROM:NBC Latino
"When our elected officials express such disgusting opinions about the poor and the hungry in America, it makes one wonder just what is America all about? Is this the face we want to present to the world? The face of a greedy, selfish people who begrudge the poor a bit of food and call them and their children animals? I am ashamed of some of the people in my country. Is she not aware that many of our military service men and women use food stamps to supplement their meager incomes? For some reason, I think she does not care." -Active Art
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