FDR and LBJ with the New Deal and the Great Society sought to bribe the electorate with the public treasury. They were pretty successful, unfortunately.
Yes, a success of instilling the victim-entitlement mentality to justify welfare as not being mercy or grace, but a just right, and thus the demand, not even a request, for having the same benefits that normally are to be earned, but are received now at the expense of those who earned them.
Without any guilt, or feeling of gratitude toward the producers (which true acts of personal sacrificial mercy and grace foster), and thus without feeling an obligation become benefactors themselves, but the obligation they feel is to support those who portray themselves as modern-day Robin hoods (much the myth that it is). However, these "saviors" spend little of their own money, but use that of others to make others dependent on them, which plan ultimately results in them being the only ones in first class, as the elite dictators . All according the the devil's plan who seek worship and allegiance thru proxy servants.
And as someone warned,
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” .
― Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, in part or whole, most notably as part of "The Fall of the Athenian Republic; https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler. Regardless of the source, it is a warning to be heeded.