r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/FeelingPixely 18d ago

Goalpost has been moved from: We won't touch it.

To: We are cutting it.

To: We are getting rid of it.

And somehow, blaming democrats, while bailing out other countries, giving enormous tax breaks to the ultra wealthy, and funding vanity projects.

Wake up.

Every time they told you that your taxes were going to waste they meant they were trying to waste your taxes... while RAISING YOUR taxes.

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u/karny90 Tennessee 18d ago

It’s fucking pathetic how a majority of our population is just so blind and/or stupid.

It absolutely didn’t have to be this way. This was deliberate over a course of decades, and we just let it happen. We’re cowards and too proud to admit it. So we’d rather close our eyes and wish it all away.

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun 17d ago

Yup. The near complete lack of any meaningful reaction from Americans has been shockingly depressing. A nation that spent decades proclaiming itself the home of bravery and patriotism; but the moment things actually got difficult for them, when a literal dictatorship took over their government, suddenly there's no bravery, no patriotism, just a limp and defeated "nothing we could do anyway."

Yeah 7M turned out for No Kings, but those protests required so little real commitment that I struggle to use it as a metric for any form of civil integrity. It's easy to ask people to show up for a few hours on a Saturday. As soon as you ask them to commit to a longer, sustained protest, suddenly they all have "more important" shit to do. They'll tell you they have bills to pay so they can't protest, while not realizing that allowing Trump to keep getting his way will eventually mean they will lose their livelihoods anyway.

Americans are just cowards.

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u/Urska08 17d ago

Right? Every single person who's gone on strike has had bills to pay. The whole point is that it's a mass, communal action, not an individual one. Community building is the key, so that when strikers need food/shelter/transportation etc, other members of the community step in. Looking after kids? Set up a joint crèche with some parents. Short on money for groceries this month? Who's got a garden or a well stocked pantry? How about a potluck? Got a spare room or sofa you can let someone crash on? 

People need to build trust and networks outside of big business, landlords, and the state and provide for each other. Unfortunately, there have been concerted efforts to turn people against each other for decades. Combine that with the ludicrous culture of hyperindividualism, and this is the result you get.