And I’ll bet that “bottom 20%” votes democrat at a higher percentage than just about any other voter demographic.
I have no problem with safety nets as well as supporting the disabled and retired, but any system where you subsidize lack of socio-economic participation in the economy is double burdened. The economic ecology is supporting them, and they aren’t contributing back to it.
Many vote red.
Go out to the rust belt and old mining towns. Or decaying ag towns.
That is why the GOP will not take on welfare