A recent Washington Post article titled “Most of America’s rich think the poor have it easy” concludes that America’s rich people have an inability to “understand the plight of those who have no choice but to seek help from the government.”

The author, citing a recent Pew study on this topic, suggests that the most “financially secure” respondents’ “lack of compassion” is “likely tied to conservatism.” He goes on to reference a different article published in 2014 by the Post in which the author says he has “a hard time understanding” how conservatives think the poor “have it easy.”