Degradation of the welfare state. That does sound really familiar. A classic excuse politically is to say the immigrants and minorities are taking it, we have had it erode more and more so many times here. Back in the 90’s it was the (totally not black) welfare queens mooching off the child care income from her (totally not black) 4 kids she had in the inner city. Now it’s anyone from south of the border that is apparently taking it. There are countless examples of prejudice fueling keeping the poor poor here, the arguments were a lot more overt right after the civil war but eventually they just became a corporate co-opted smoke screen since they really stand to benefit more than anyone. It sounds really hard in Europe too I guess. It’s such a vicious cycle fascism and wealth inequality. Or even just scapegoats and wealth inequality. They do say polarization correlates with wealth inequality but the overton window especially in the US has shifted so far right that it’s hard to even beleive sometimes.