Leftists “don’t get” poverty

Leftists “don’t get” poverty only if one assumes that they truly intend to end poverty. This would be a false assumption. Leftists NEED poverty and they create and expand poverty, because it is good for politics. It is a Marxian myth that history is a series of struggles between the very rich and the very poor.
The very rich and the very poor have always had a symbiotic relationship, going back at least as far as ancient Rome. The very rich in government support the very poor economically, and the very poor support the very rich politically. This has not changed. Leftists provide free food, free housing, and subsidies of various kinds to poor people, and they expand the poverty rolls by punishing people who actually try to exit poverty.
Leftists have created multiple generations of welfare dependents who will never escape poverty and live in crime ridden, filth infested slums. In return for this “support” the people who live in these dumps vote for them, thinking they will help them, when in reality, Leftists put them in poverty deliberately and keep them there. Leftists understand poverty all too well, and use it to gain political advantage.
Don’t make the mistake of assuming that Leftists actually want to end poverty and are just mistaken in their methods. Leftists need poverty to get elected.