Think about it. Maybe it makes sense in the very very short term. If I am a democrat in the longer term and I no longer care about votes because I control everything and all elections are done by machine that I control. Why do I want a bunch of dependent people that don't generate me any revenue through taxes?
I don't mean people that do needed jobs for cheap. I mean real dependents that don't want to work and want free food and shelter.
They need people to tax to have anything meaningful. If every single person was a jobless dependent then it would not work
Do you believe that the gimmes will continue after the commies take total power?
Simply, no.
The "useful idiots" get rounded up and liquidated and jobs are created by the state and people ordered to work them.
Those who prove to be without value to the state starve in Gulags.
Jesus tapdancing Christ, read a history book that isn't written by a commie or apologist.