Agree. But you aren’t telling me anything of which I have not been aware for the last 40 years or so.
Yes, the low-income non-taxpayers have always been there, but as a group did not gain real political power until a liberal black president came along.
Obama got reelected easily last year even though he pushed through a law that put the IRS in charge of health care. It wasn’t nearly so easy in the past, as Bill and Hillary found out in 1994. Obama has hit the political sweet spot of ignorance and dependence.