I think if you were to take the average liberal voter, they would mean well. However, there is a small but highly active segment of the far left that does promote an anti-American ideology, and unfortunately, this all too often manages to spread through social media and into the mainstream discourse. One need not look further than the anti-Israel protests to see this.
Returning to our earlier back and forth...
That "help" they believe they're providing isn't much help to the downtrodden, I submit it harms them, and not merely metaphysically.
But that's not even the worst aspect. Having the government be in the position to provide that sort of "help" means they wield a lot of power and control a lot of money, both of which things make those programs very ripe for abuse and demagoguery.
Worse still is the recipients. Almost all of them are where they are because they never learned how to make good decisions. Giving them free money in perpetuity unburdens them from ever having to learn how to make good decisions. Then you end up where we are, with multiple generations never having learned how to make good decisions. We've created a permanent dependency class.
One simple example of poor decision-making: groceries. If they had to spend their own money, they'd likely opt for (the much cheaper) whole fruit like melons, pears, peaches, and the like. Instead, they waste money on the more expensive plastic trays and cups full of already-diced fruit. They don't know any better because their parents were dependency class as well, and life's circumstances never enforced the idea of frugality on them.
Or they buy big screen TVs, or get lots of tats, or expensive hair weaves, or any number of things that people who have to work for their money would never spend it on.
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