In its embrace of the politics of
victimhood liberalism does a disservice both to the interests of the poor and the preservation of democracy.
Not exact matches
The desire to bestow
victimhood on virtually all poor people in America was dramatically intensified in the 1960s by the fusion of
liberalism's civil rights agenda with its welfare state agenda.
As it has been absorbed by
liberalism, this
victimhood argument is meant to put some steel in the liberals» appeal to compassion as a rationale for paying for the welfare state.