‘emphasizing spending on education and public works will re-energize black voters and attract whites as well’
Democrats are caught in their own trap. They created an entitlement culture, fed it, nourished it and pandered to it. They thought it would be, and remain, a static pool of reliable voters.
But the entitlement mentality is an insatiable monster. It grows and morphs and above all demands: more, more, more.
There was a time when the entitlement mentality would be satisfied with more educational and public works spending. That time is long past. Now the Dem base demands more and more ‘free stuff’ it doesn’t have to lift a finger to receive. The base wants to sit on its rump and hear Dems promise it more and more ‘benefits’. Direct benefits. Benefits that can be used in lieu of a job or other type of earned income.
Dem voters will not get excited over ‘increased education spending’. That train left the station long ago. The only thing that will excite them now is additional welfare benefits.
The Dems created this monster. Now it is their master.
And the other side of that coin is that, as the Free Sh*t Army is growing, the middle class taxpayers who pull the load is shrinking.