Quark: "Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.
But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon.
You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes."
- - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Siege of AR-558
Exactly. When does helping someone in need make them complete dependents.
Good analogy — Star Trek. :)
Sounds like you are a Trekkie. Me too.
Although Roddenberry could be a little goofy with his plots, sometimes he was spot on. Most of the time, his plots had an underlying meaning and message. It was the sixties after all. :)
A very good analogy to the Democrat party and modern politics is the “Day of the Dove” episode in the early series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dove
Democrats are the evil entity that thrives on anger and hatred and all Americans are the participants fighting amongst each other in an on going “war.”
And if there wasn’t hatred (mostly from identity politics mostly ginned up by the Democrats and everyone blaming everyone), Democrats would be out of a job. No one would vote for them.
Bottom line: Democrats thrive on an environment of hatred and anger and as you mention above complete dependency on the government. All bad IMHO. I think that most people on FR agree.
Sadly, a few decades ago, the attitude was different. If you didn’t work; why aren’t you working? And a person shouldn’t be on public assistance. It was frowned upon. Why is this? Because it was believed that a person gained self respect from hard work and that it was demeaning to be on public assistance. Not any more apparently.