The poor are dehumanized by retail chains, police, healthcare providers, the media and society in general. Any party that does not center the dignity of those who are currently poor and the elimination of poverty does not deserve to be in office. I'm talking to you Dems and GOP.
@anthonyzenkus The poor of the United States are envied by the rest of the world.
@anthonyzenkus also calling people 'the poor' is a dehumanizing and humiliating thing, as it feeds into a certain stereotypes and judgments.
@anthonyzenkus “But if it is necessary food that he comes to thee for, why be showing wise so unseasonably, and take so over-exact an account of him, accusing him of idleness and sloth? For if we must talk in this way, it is not others, but ourselves that we ought to address.” —John Chrysostom
@anthonyzenkus I agree with that. Sadly they're also dehumanized by the middle and upper middle classes either knowingly or unknowingly...
@anthonyzenkus 27 years into the Democrats' war on the poor, liberal media "reframed" the poor as no one worse off than minimum wage workers. Est. 10 million left jobless, many with $0 incomes. Over 1,000 homeless froze to death over winter.
@anthonyzenkus @MmjjjJoan You can include the current UK govt and system.
@anthonyzenkus Humiliating the poor is deeply ingrained in the American psyche, alas! Maybe because the religion of the majority is greed?
@anthonyzenkus I was poor once.....it was my fault. Nobody else's.