Thread by @BlokeOnWheels

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As a disabled person who is not capable of work (a fact accepted by the DWP) I'm fed up of being fucking demonised and made to feel somehow 'unworthy'. Although I may not be directly targeted, the vile general rhetoric towards 'benefit claimants' is bad enough.

They could choose to come after me at any point they like, the constant background fear is absolutely dreadful to live with. I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels like this, and I'm also pretty sure that people who have never. experienced the DWP won't be able...2

To fully appreciate but this feels like. The rhetoric makes me think that the government would prefer it if didn't exist, now I may be overthinking things a bit, but the right-wing press does nothing but attack and demonise people on low incomes, while twunts like...3

30p Lee Anderson, happily parrot this bollocks to their thousands of social media followers which amplifies the dangerous 'them V us' narrative still further. There has to be a better way, we have to recognise that our economic and societal model is unsustainable not because..4

There are too many people relying on state support, but because the whole structure can only survive through inequality. And it is that inequality which feeds the need for people to claim Social Security in order to survive in the first place. That's what's broken..5

But of course, it is a problem which our government will have absolutely no interest in coming up with a solution to, in fact they don't even see it as a problem. They prefer to blame low-paid, disabled and unemployed people for the state of the country, that way they can...6

Continue spreading hatred and division, rather than actually trying to do something positive to address the fact that our entire society is built on the premise that those keeping it afloat, are the least able to support themselves.
#Inequality #Disability #SocialSecurity. 7