Murder is only one way to silence people and causes; it's far easier and more effective to turn them into caricatures ("the loony left", "welfare dependents", "feminazis").
To this base, Obama can add the welfare dependents, virtually all African-Americans, and the well-organized legions of public employees.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky). caused a stir when he argued that the benefits turned job-seekers into welfare dependents.
He probably wouldn't be happy how Washington's defense policy has kept rich allies as welfare dependents more than a quarter century after he left office.
Latham's analysis, which had all the depth of slightly damp concrete, revealed that Sydney had a "Muslim problem", recommending that ASIO monitor groups of "welfare dependents" who sit around "bitching about Western culture" all day.
Affluent strivers — those well-versed in a new entrepreneurial language who shrugged off their social housing and dreamed of being homeowners — became separated from welfare dependents, whose financial failures were presented as personal and moral.
