"The older I get, the more I realize how much damage is done by the Left."

All their "good" intentions can be thrown in the same basket. "I love the poor, so I want you to give them money."

This isn't loving to the poor. It's infantilizing. I first realized this three decades ago when I had to think about how people, generally teenagers in this case, plan for their adult lives. You have to define your interests. You have to pick a career. You have to plan to stay in school, or if you're leaving school, you have to realize the consequences. If you want to do some kind of manual labor, you have to know that you'll be taking on a trade and probably going to trade school or apprenticing yourself to a tradesman or trade union or other similar group. You have to stay out of jail so they can hire you. Or maybe you plan to go into business for yourself, in which case you have to learn SOMETHING, even if it's just the art of raking leaves.

But if you want to learn nothing, you can goof off, play video games, spend all your time on the phone, go to the mall and chase boys, whatever. Then when you're 26 and off mommy and daddy's support, you can stick your hand out and demand the government support you.

So many of our people prefer the second option. Is that good for them? If you think living on a pittance, having no respect for yourself, and being a parasite instead of productive is good for you, then sure, it's good not just for them, it's good for our entire society and we should promote this lifestyle as much as we can.