I was thinking that when reading SWO's excellent link in post 71, about the regrets of two academics who studied the results of the Section 8 scheme that saw cities tear down projects and disperse the poor to neighborhoods all over the cities, which resulted in new crime patterns that are harder than ever to predict, prevent or police. What struck me was the complete lack of planning, programming and funding for the social needs of people thrust out of poverty into a middle-class area with middle-class behavioral expectations that the migrating poor would prove unable to meet. It was, pardon me for saying so, like invading a Middle East country and expecting them to adopt democracy.
One of the most stupid stupidities of the progressives is their conceit that it is only money that separates the poor from the rich. They recoiled in horror from the "cultural imperialism" of Christian missionaries in the pre-welfare era going into troubled or impoverished areas and trying to teach a religious ideology of humility, responsibility, respect, hope and love. Now, progressives push their ideology of consequence-free sex, child neglect, baby-killing, entitlements and victimhood, and cannot see that they are destroying the people they think they are helping. And that's just the do-gooders. The callously uncaring elites fully understand that the do-gooders are merely serving the elites' purposes of capturing Democrat votes.
Spot on.