Fickle Winds: Ideological Conflict, Political Caricatures of the Poor, and the New Terrorist Threat
40 Pages Posted: 21 Aug 2016
Date Written: August 16, 2016
Abstract
During the Great Depression global political and economic circumstances colluded in such a way as to encourage the USA to treat poverty as a social rather than an individual-level problem. In the 1930s, abjuring sympathy for its economically depressed citizens could have invoked a dangerous climate in which Americans might have been motivated to view the USSR’s worker-oriented political system more favorably. Subsequently, poverty definitions and policies have been blown about capriciously with the regular shift of political and economic tides.
Keywords: Poverty, Welfare, Ideology, Terror, Terrorism, Democracy, Politics, Power, Deceit
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