[lotsofpulp]

I’m not willing to give people that benefit of the doubt. There is a very large portion of US voters that philosophically do not believe in helping others outside their tribe, and will punish politicians for any broad measure to assist the bottom rungs in any meaningful way.

They will support certain charities, support extremely means tested and convoluted benefits, but they know any real help will increase their taxes and result in wealth redistribution, so they will vote against it no matter what.

Easy proof is the complete lack of parental support, or the laughably outdated minimum wage.

The funny thing is that from what I can observe, most of the opposition to social safety net benefits comes from people who barely have any wealth that could be redistributed from them anyway. They just don’t like the idea of other tribes getting help!