I’ve thought some more about this, and I think their platform is coherent if you assume their goal is power. Economic trouble and poverty help the left by maki

I’ve thought some more about this, and I think their platform is coherent if you assume their goal is power. Economic trouble and poverty help the left by making them the savior upon whom everyone is dependent. After all, it was the Great Depression that gave FDR’s New Deal a free pass in the first place — and that really was the beginning of the modern Democratic Party’s economic platform. They want people to be poor. That’s how they get the majority of their votes.