vs the donor class Dems, who's "dignity of work" narrative parallels the GOP "personal responsibility" attitude that Proles only exist to enrich the donor class.

Personal responsibility goes back the the Puritans, and the Puritans developed it mainly form Calvinism and other sources We've had "the protestant work ethic:" for a long time. Somewhere along the line it got bastardized. They believed if you were prosperous God smiled on you, and if you were poor God didn't. It even went as far as if you broke your arm, that God broke your arm.

I remember reading Cotton Mather recounting how in a local Indian village one out of twenty Indians survived a disease outbreak - 95% kill rate. This supported the belief of manifest destiny, because God killed the Indians so that we could take spread across the continent.

And Lo! the King came into the country and found the brown people from the South lacked industry and did not contribute to the community, so he exiled them. The country prospered and flowered, giving fruit upon fruit, but low the wicked Ds among them plotted to bring the house of Cyrus down, stirring inflation and unemployment to hurt the Kingdom, and the devil smiled, and said it was good.