Time was, Dems would garner votes by giving away freebies. Now, they only have to promise freebies and the drones vote in droves.
It wasn’t that many years ago that politicians got the vote by buying drinks for voters on Election Day. Now Biden drains the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (costing hundreds of billions to refill at higher oil prices) and tries to forgive a trillion of student debt.
Not bad in 175 years — going from a two-bit whiskey to buy a vote to hundreds of thousands per vote.