Old movies were the good guy with the gun would always disparage some 'liberal' politician or 'democrat'. Basically. Usually a soldier, detective, or cop on the front lines. Dealing with some choice a politician made.
Very old meme from the days before color film or technicolor.
Don't really feel like digging around youtube, but there is one really iconic scene were
everyone's hero was like this, and it even stuck in my head forever. I didn't hate the character at the time. I personally thinkfeel that particular scene had a huge impact on a lot of people.
But ya, I think you hit the sentiment directly on the head. I would phrase it thus, There's an assertion that social welfare has the potential to hinder individual opportunity by creating a form of dependence or edging out less desirable employment and creating a certain class of people below poverty or below the middle class, thus entrenching them.
It may just be due to a lack of exposure, and so a lot of people that spent 50 years on a farm watching that movie and enjoying their tea, just are inclined to think this way. Understandibly, "they never needed help before". Now the economy is crashing, they don't want a hand out suddenly. (though not true as farming subsidies have been around forever), but it's an illustration of how this could work.
I think my disconnect is that this is some kind of polarized thinking, and in order to disparage one you have to rule it out completely having any positive effect. Which is troublesome.
Nothing is ever usually so clear cut.
Feel free to pass on my feelings and thoughts
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