re: #154 A Mom Anon

The end of these programs, a cherished goal of the right’s base, would be a disaster for the retail food industry. Not only would the poor be reduced to buying only rice and beans, when it got bad enough hungry mobs would simply storm the place and loot the inventory entirely. People will do all sorts of things they normally wouldn’t if the alternative is to watch their children starve.
It can happen here, it hasn’t because we have not let it happen. That could change if the RWNJs have their way. FDR didn’t create the New Deal out of fuzzy headed altruism, he did it to head off the very real possibility of a revolution.