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WTF?
What? If it's control, it's control only in the vague sense that all politics is control (and therefore isn't peculiar to entitlements). Politicians promise interest groups things they want. Business owners want more tax cuts. Minorities want more legal protections. Poor people want... wait for it... more money.

A pattern of continued behavior to entice a group to keep you in power, if it's effective, is control. It's not exclusive to the Dems.

However I think it's a bit evil how they manipulate the poor.

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Posted by Iosh

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Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:13 pm to RogerTheShrubber

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A pattern of continued behavior to entice a group to keep you in power, if it's effective, is control. It's not exclusive to the Dems.

Why is that control and not simply a quid pro quo? Both Dems and poor people get what they want (votes, money)

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Posted by EZE Tiger Fan

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Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:13 pm to RogerTheShrubber

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However I think it's a bit evil how they manipulate the poor.

I started a thread on this very topic years ago when I was going through my conversion from DEM to IND.

I labeled them "Evil Geniuses".

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Posted by roadGator

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Posted on 5/24/17 at 5:13 pm to RogerTheShrubber

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a bit evil

It's more than a bit evil.

I can't think of any thing much more evil.

Telling people how much you care about them while you are living in million dollar homes and sipping expensive wine is pretty sick just to get their votes.

Pretending to care is bad. At least I don't care and I don't pretend.

Hell, most people don't care really as they do absolutely nothing but bitch about problems they perceive to get some warm feeling about themselves.

Most of the libs here for instance.

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