Social Security came into being in 1935, and thus every American alive today paid into the fund from the moment they entered the workplace until the moment they left. Yet, as we’re seeing, the GOP believes that a tenable platform is simply this: let’s rip these people off. Again, this isn’t some marginalized fringe group; it’s the entirety of the U.S. electorate. If you’re a political strategist, does this seem like a good idea?
A progressive since a small boy, I’ve never liked Republicans. I still remember distinctly my take as a nine-year-old on Barry Goldwater in ’64, and George Wallace, who got my grandfather’s vote four years later. I was not impressed, putting it kindly.
Yet at that point, I understood that some folks, many of them older, might be drawn to more conservative values. But what’s appealing about whacking the retirement plan that literally every American worker paid into?
In today’s world, a significant number of Americans hate everyone but straight white Christian males.
Hatred of other people has replaced baseball as our national pastime. Ignorance is what we’ve become known for around the globe.
In the last two days, I’ve met two people from Portland, Oregon, both of whom I told the same story about my reaction to the Trump administration’s claim that they brought in federal troops into the city to stop the “rioting” and “domestic terrorism” of the “No Kings” protestors.
As I put it:
Bullshit. If I had to name the most peace-loving city in the United States, it would be Portland.
Not one but both of them squealed with delight. They both pointed out that many of the protestors were dressed as frogs, in the way of pure whimsy that dominates the state’s largest and most highly educated city.
In the case of the fellow at left, yes it’s true that, sadly, there are tens of millions of Americans who don’t have the intelligence to know that a) Iran’s nuclear program had been shut down in the Obama administration, with every major nation of Earth and its nuclear physicists signing off on the landmark agreement, and b) that (even if that weren’t the case) it had been “obliterated” by Trump far more recently.
This guy’s career is built around lying to idiots. I don’t envy him.
Wind contributes about 12% of the U.S. grid mix, though it’s over 70% in some of the plains states.
As one reader pointed out, “It’s great for the common American. Sorry it doesn’t work for billionaires.”
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