The strategy is simple. Make people poor by hamstringing the economy with excessive taxation and regulation. Then pay them to be poor. This allows Democrats to impose communism progressively rather than by revolution followed by a civil war that they might lose. In New York:

Governor Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday that around $350 million is [going to be bestowed in] supplemental payments to low and moderate-income families statewide through the Empire State Child Credit program.

Hochul’s office said more than 1 million families will receive this financial assistance without any need to apply, as each eligible family will receive a direct payment of up to $330 per child.

Applying would be too much work.

Vote Democrat or the bureaucrats might take your free money away. Never mind that you would have more money in addition to freedom and dignity without Marxists in power.

On a tip from Wiggins.