We have got to figure out a way to get moonbats on our side in the food fraud stamp program. How much money could have gone to parks, after-school programs, teacher-enrichment, raises for firefighters if it wasn’t hung up in this huge nationwide FRAUD program that is never investigated!
One thing you have to understand about leftist/sheeperal support for government programs is the subtle difference between wanting to do good and wanting to feel good about oneself for wanting to do good.
Your post assumes the former, that their primary motivation is to do good.
I (and Thomas Sowell) assert that the primary motivation is the latter - to feel good about oneself for wanting to do good.
If you point out how their advocacy is actually harmful, they’ll take it as a personal attack. They haven’t, don’t want to, and will vehemently resist any analysis that leads to the conclusion that their advocacy didn’t do good.