The poor is a permanent class. The democratic socialists I know are far more concerned about this than the conservatives I know. (Unless you wish to count band-aid-solution vote-buying.)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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