Social Security wasnt important, Medicare wasnt etc.

Far too many people vote, based on some minor thing, like whether they "like" a candidate or not. Even on DU, I don't see that many people who are interested in discussing consequences of things in the future. It's all about what is right now and how people feel about that right now.

Strategic thinking appears to be a lost discipline these days. We've stopped "thinkin' about tomorrow" it seems to me. Today is it.

"How do I feel TODAY? What will happen TODAY?"

It's freaking depressing to me, frankly. It's causing me to lose hope.

not just SS, Medicare, but reproductive rights, voting rights, employment rights, etc.

The courts will never protect us, they will never be lawful, not anymore.

The courts is all we have now, and they will soon be entirely filled with idiot sycophants who will make Scalia look like a liberal.

we can find.

"No...he's not progressive enough. Let the Republican win. That'll change things. That'll wake people up." Feh!

I will be obnoxious about writing that!

And those threads will sink out of sight faster than anyone would believe. It's embarrassing that even DU doesn't seem to recognize what has to actually be done to reverse the current trend. If you remind people about that, you get blowback. It's bizarre.

Seems to me Gary Cohn was one of the Guy's who wants to create a hybrid Social Security Trust with people pledging a portion of their forward withholding's to some type of Wall Street Bond Fund type Instrument. If people thing this Guy is a Moderate Dem,forget about it. This Guy is a Third Way Dem all the way. He is staying in order to tap the Social Security Trillions for Wall Street. Remember Robert Ruben and Larry Sommers,well,here is their Clone.

They either don't vote or vote Republican. Good luck! And THIS is why we vote for the collective's interests.

As elderly people starved to death and lost their homes from poverty

http://billmoyers.com/content/deja-vu-all-over-a-look-back-at-some-of-the-tirades-against-social-security-and-medicare/

Then there were arguments against socialism during Medicare, which would lead to a slippery slope of taxpayer funded vacation resorts and cigarettes and beer for all.

My favorite arguments are that the "undeserving" would get benefits they didn't work for and earn. It's the same nonsensical mean-spirited arguments they use now.

the general populous just can't conceive nor comprehend the full level of dastardliness and mean spiritedness of nearly an entire political party. Especially because some of them seem almost human. They are the perpetrators of an abdication of governmental goodwill of epic proportions and with the continual lowering of the bar of normalcy we are becoming a society of frogs in a vat of water edging ever closer to its boiling point.

I live on SS and get my medical from VA.

Shakin' in my boots sometimes, although I have to admit the new VA admin from Trump looks like one of his positive hits.

When I was six. My mother had no skills, didn't know how to drive a car. Without Social Security and Veteran's benefits, I have no idea how we would have survived. As it was, our family remained together. Under the repugs, she would have had to work at any McJob and use most of the money for daycare.