"""A well-meaning but incompetent state.""  Yes, because the ""freedom"" of classical economics worked SO much better back in the Gilded Age, a model of democratic government in every possible way.  Ahhhh... 

 ""People who disdain the poor and admit it too.""  That would be the people who walk into an inner city, discover the existence of people ten times worse off than they are and start lecturing them about their ""entitlement mentality.""  In other words, Republicans.  There's nothing ""poor"" about the self-proclaimed average Joes who deliver tirades against ""big government""... actually poor people exhibit none of that crap.    

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