What attitude should the Democratic Party take towards the poor?

[Ken Burch]

Corollary question:

Should any Democratic president ever do anything to the poor again that was remotely similar to what was done to them in the Nineties?

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	A mix of people who have been hurt by the system and whose condition justifies fighting for structural social and economic change
	3 (75%)
	A mix of people who need "opportunity"(whatever that means), but whose condition doesn't justify siginificant change
	1 (25%)
	A mix of people of who are mostly a dead loss but from whose ranks a tiny few could be saved if they show "promise"and "personal responsibility"
	0 (0%)
	A bunch of failures we are absolutely right to be judgmental and dismissive towards, and who have only themselves to blame
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[grasswire]

1. follow Bernie's lead

I think he's been pretty clear about his priorities.

[jberryhill]

2. Are there no prisons?