My experience with extended family members has been – the less able the person is, the louder he/she carps in public about how ‘those people’ are injuring him/her. (Obama being King of Those People, rather than POTUS in their eyes). The loudest of all were the ones I knew to be living on some kind of dole, either the bank of Dad, social security, Medicaid + inheritance, etc.
Seems like with my people at least that it’s more common in those over 40. Which is why I’m able to use the past tense now. Unfortunately.
Not all the Unnecessariat are high school dropouts shooting up in Deadville, IN. They are scattered throughout the nation, ineffectually protected by extended family.
