Was Katrina BushCo's experiment in Straussian social Darwinism?

When egalitarianism is replaced by social Darwinism, as promoted by this bizarre theory of justice, repression of the lower classes not only is acceptable, but is even justified in the minds of the average person even when they are part of the persecuted class. The result has been that Americans don't even care about social justice as they once did. If the rich have to step over the homeless in the street on the way to the opera, then so be it. The belief is that the homeless are laying in the gutter because of decisions they have made - that they're lazy and incompetent, and they could "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" if they had any "gumption." Any effort to improve the lot of the poor is ridiculed as "bleeding-heart liberalism" and "social engineering." This attitude has come to be prevalent, even among the working classes in the United States, in spite of the growing experience of those same people with increasingly rapid downward mobility in the form of lower real wages and reduced benefits, over which they have no control, and which has occurred in spite of the harder work and longer working hours being put in by the average American worker, more than at any time in living memory. So deeply have they been convinced that their circumstances are entirely of their own making, that they never seem to question why this downward mobility continues in spite of increasing worker productivity and a growing economy. They have been told, and therefore assume it to be correct, that it is their fault for decisions they have made themselves.