The Homeless Leviathan: How the Ruling Class Monetized Misery

The Ruling Class/Democrat Party Leviathan complex always grows by feeding on human suffering. It consumes weakness, repackages it as “compassion,” and demands tribute from those who still believe that the government and its satellites can heal what they’ve broken.

Nowhere is that more obvious than in America’s homelessness crisis.

Every year, Americans pour billions of dollars into programs meant to “end homelessness”—through taxes, through donations, through good intentions. And yet the tents multiply. The needles pile up. The despair deepens. The reason isn’t failure. It’s design.

The crisis sustains the bureaucracy that claims to fight it. The administrative state has simply built a new limb of itself—what the Capital Research Center rightly calls the “Homeless Industrial Complex.” In truth, it’s a Homeless Leviathan: a vast, unelected empire of nonprofits, bureaucrats, and activists, united not by compassion but by ideology and the pursuit of power.

The Leviathan’s Latest Face

According to the new report Infiltrated: The Ideological Capture of Homelessness Advocacy, this network includes 759 organizations with more than $9 billion in combined revenue, one-third of which comes directly from taxpayers. These are the same groups that urged the Supreme Court in Grants Pass v. Johnson (2024) to declare local anti-camping laws unconstitutional.

The Court refused. But the case revealed something deeper: that much of America’s homelessness “advocacy” has become a political insurgency against order itself.

The Leviathan tries to hide behind the mask of charity—but in reality it wages ideological warfare using the language of compassion.

The Ideological Capture of Compassion

For centuries, the proper role of charity was simple: restore dignity through discipline, order through mercy, and hope through responsibility. The Homeless Leviathan has inverted every one of these principles.

It preaches that homelessness is not a human tragedy but a political symptom—the inevitable result of capitalism, racism, policing, or “systemic injustice.” In this framework, the addict is a victim of “structures,” the mentally ill are casualties of “inequality,” and those who enforce the law are the villains.

This is not compassion; it is ideology masquerading as empathy. It excuses every failure because it replaces accountability with grievance. The Leviathan thrives on grievance because grievance guarantees dependency—and dependency is the lifeblood of control.

The Business of Misery

The report found that at least $2.9 billion in taxpayer grants now flow through this network each year. Yet the result is not rehabilitation, but radicalization.

Groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center—sitting on more than $700 million in assets—spend their fortunes attacking local efforts to restore order. When President Trump issued executive orders to confront homelessness by enforcing drug laws and supporting institutional treatment, these same groups accused him of “resurrecting racist policies.”

The Ruling Class/Democrat Party/Leviathan complex recoils at order because order threatens its existence. Disorder is its proof of life, its justification for more funding, its mandate for expansion.

That’s how an entire ecosystem of nonprofits once devoted to housing the homeless has transformed into a political army—litigating against cities that clear encampments, lobbying for drug normalization, and reframing addiction as liberation.

It is an empire of failure that rewards itself for every tent, every overdose, every shattered neighborhood.

The Ideological Web

The Homeless Leviathan doesn’t exist in isolation. Its tendrils extend into the broader revolutionary network of the modern Left: the Black Lives Matter movement, the Sunrise Movement, the “Stop Cop City” riots, and even groups that celebrated the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023.

The Right to the City Alliance—whose board chair is BLM co-founder Alicia Garza—has openly called for “the end of borders and militarized violence from Palestine to Mexico.” Others, like the Western Regional Advocacy Project, label policing itself as “a structural enemy of housing justice.”

These are not social service providers. They are ideological cells—subsidized by taxpayers, protected by bureaucrats, and sanctified by the media as moral authorities.

The Leviathan doesn’t always wear a government badge. Sometimes it wears a nonprofit logo.

The Revolving Door of Dependence

The Homeless Leviathan has perfected the bureaucratic art of failure:

• Create chaos.

• Declare it compassion.

• Demand more funding to manage it.

Every failed policy becomes proof that “more investment” is needed. Every spike in homelessness becomes an argument for bigger budgets and fewer restrictions. And every critic is branded as cruel, greedy, or “anti-poor.”

This self-perpetuating machine is indistinguishable from the broader Administrative Leviathan that now governs America: a regime that survives by convincing the people they are too broken to govern themselves.

The Moral Inversion of the Leviathan

The true evil of this system is moral, not bureaucratic.

It has inverted the very definition of mercy. It claims to love the downtrodden while trapping them in dependency. It condemns the disciplined while sanctifying dysfunction. It preaches compassion but practices control.

In every tent city, you can see the theology of the Leviathan at work: man reduced to a statistic, suffering reimagined as currency, and despair converted into power.

This is not humanitarianism. It is the bureaucratization of sin—the industrialization of decay.

Reclaiming the Ground Beneath Us

The fight against the Homeless Leviathan is not about cruelty versus compassion. It’s about truth versus delusion. Order versus chaos. Civilization versus entropy.

Real compassion demands truth: that many of the homeless are enslaved by addiction or untreated mental illness, and that no society can endure if its streets become lawless sanctuaries for decay. Real compassion means enforcing laws, restoring accountability, and breaking the financial incentives that make human misery profitable.

We must tear the mask off this beast. The Homeless Leviathan is not a savior—it is the monster that grows stronger with every act of misplaced mercy.

The only way to defeat it is to starve it: Cut off its funding. Expose its ideology.
Rebuild a culture of responsibility that answers to the people—not to the administrative priesthood of “experts” and activists who claim to care while cashing the checks.

Because every time the Leviathan feeds, liberty starves.

And if we fail to confront it—if we continue to bow to its moral blackmail—the tent cities will spread not only across our streets, but across our souls.