Answer:
1. It means that since very old times politics and religion have used hypocresia to abandon and declassify the most needy.
2. Swift shows that the English community sees the Irish people as inferior and the Irish allow this situation to remain, keeping the poor population in poverty, absolute and without socio-economic help.
Explanation:
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathon Swift is a short story, in which the author reveals the religious and political cynicism and hypocrisy of Irish citizens towards the poor population of Ireland. He says that since religious leaders and political leaders do not want to deal with and help the most needy people, it would be better to feed on them, exploiting them to the maximum and making them useful. Angela's Ashes narrator reads this short story, reinforcing the government and religious neglect of helping those in need.
For Swift, the disregard of the Irish with the needy, only reinforces the stereotype propagated by the English community that the Irish are dirty, poor, undervalued and badly educated.
