Bill Clinton managed to make a bipartisan effort to reduce welfare work.
Cut me some fucking slack and stop looking at Democrats through rose-tinted glasses, for Christ’s sake.
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Jaysyn@lemmy.world 18 hours agoThere’s is a thread that goes from Bill Clinton creating the meme of the welfare queen to DOGE.
That was famously Ronald Reagan. Not sure why anyone would pay attention to anything else you say after fucking that up that bad.
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darthelmet@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yeah he got that wrong, but I think this still highlights the dynamic at play. Regan pushed the horrible cultural narrative around welfare, but then he was followed by Clinton saying he was going to “end welfare as we know it.” Softer language than Regan, but pushing in the same policy direction, enabled by Regan’s earlier propaganda, and in the act of making it bipartisan, he normalized it as a position that we’ve been stuck with ever since.