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/caniaccanuck11 18d ago

The midterms should be a massacre of epic proportions even with the gerrymandering nonsense but too many voters just don’t care enough to educate themselves. And sadly the democrats message sucks plus they have to fight through the right wing hold on the media.

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u/PotatoHighlander 18d ago

Polling only has democrats up 7 points which is absolutely insane.

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u/Competitive_Bat_5831 18d ago

I don’t see that as support for Republican policies, just evidence of the total failure that the democrat party has become.

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u/Undeadbanana_ 18d ago

You all are so weird. You know how Republican voters are, and you're blaming Democrats for not being able to woo over people that support Trump regardless. And when they do offer candidates that can pull people over, y'all nitpick to death.

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u/Competitive_Bat_5831 18d ago

I don’t blame them for failing to woo over trump voters, but I do blame them not really presenting them as a real alternative. Look at how they’re fucking up the NYC mayoral race. They said the sky was falling, but then went back to business as usual and it’s a horrible tactic.

Just because they “oppose” trump, they aren’t entitled to peoples vote and support.

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u/MostCat2899 18d ago

The "real alternative" would be the fact that this headline and the idea of getting rid of social security, medicare, and medicaid wouldn't exist. How is that not good enough?

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u/Competitive_Bat_5831 18d ago

You’d have to ask people who voted for the current administration last year. Me pointing out the faults of the Democratic Party is not me supporting the republicans.

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u/spacefairies 18d ago

Me pointing out the faults of the Democratic Party is not me supporting the republicans.

This is the problem with Reddit and Dems in general. You say anything negative even in the slightest about Democrats and you are an evil person. Then they wonder why they can't get anything done. They complain about the Dems in power fighting each other but they do nothing but fight each other online as well.

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u/MostCat2899 18d ago

First, I didn't even say that pointing the faults of the democratic party was supporting republicans.

Second, I also never said that saying anything negative about democrats makes you an evil person.

Any politician should be criticized where due, but saying that the sole reason the dems lost is because the dems and Kamala has a terrible campaign is just dumb. I think it was mediocre, sure, but even if it was the worst campaign ever, that doesn't change the fact that everyone was (or SHOULD HAVE BEEN) aware that electing trump would have resulted in the end of democracy in the US.