We hear and read quite a bit about the Right’s “War on Women” as the Democratic Party’s media arms attempt to smear conservatives and Republicans with attacks drawn straight from the Rules for Radicals playbook. This propaganda has been very effective, but it simply isn’t true.

There is, however, a major war being waged by the Democrats and their leftist allies: the War on the Poor.

This conflict has been a decades-long affair, consisting of left-wing policies ostensibly intended to alleviate suffering, but which really promote dependence, shatter the family structure that helps combat poverty, and create a more powerful government that threatens the liberties enshrined in our Constitution.

We are spending trillions of dollars in an effort to combat the effects of poverty, but this is only compounding a level of debt endangering America’s fiscal solvency. Is national bankruptcy going to help the poor? No. Yet that is the destination to which we’re headed under the allegedly benevolent efforts on the part of leftists.

The entitlements programs, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, are significant factors in the debt crisis and the Left’s War on the Poor. All of these, ostensibly tasked with improving quality of life, encourage dependence on an unsustainable level of government interference into our lives. Why should government provide for our retirement? Why not use the private markets to invest and save a much larger sum upon retiring? Because so-called liberals think that they can better plan the people’s lives than the people themselves, we are burdened with a higher level of taxation, as well as programs that cannot be maintained over the long term. These same government officials can’t devise an effective social program, but they still won’t leave us alone. Ponder that for a moment.

Yet another area where the Left assaults working-class Americans is through onerous gun restriction laws. The research demonstrates that firearms save lives, in contrast to progressive claims.

If you’re poor, the Democrats don’t look upon you with compassion; rather, they see an opportunity to gain your vote. This explains the trillions spent on welfare initiatives, social programs, and the like. All of these policies have the massive political advantage of creating a class dependent upon the good graces of a benevolent, all-caring state. (For those who think that government is a societal panacea, I would suggest that you look up Waco, the TSA, and North Korea.)

At the same time, the Left wages a war on the rich through onerous taxation and regulation that drives businesses and jobs from the country to places like China. They use anti-rich rhetoric to enlist the working class in their election campaigns, but their policies targeting the upper classes harms the prosperity and opportunity that benefit the poor and enable them to improve their living conditions and advance themselves.