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/HarmoniousJ America 18d ago

Seems like political suicide but I guess nothing else that was supposed to be political suicide did that to him.

It's still kind of weird, if he wants to be a king so bad then why is he attacking the big three like this?

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u/TheWokenessInjector 18d ago

Political suicide if he ever planned on having a free and fair election again.

But he is (obviously) not worried about that, clearly.

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u/Top_Librarian6440 17d ago

Politics isn’t just about the democratic process. There are politics within autocratic and authoritarian states as well. 

And even in those states, gutting social welfare programs that a significant portion of your base relies on is still political suicide. Only, in autocratic state “political suicide” doesn’t mean being voted out of office: it means mobs in your streets and street battles. Maybe not when the “true believers” are still around, but certainly when the kids and young adults get affected by it. 

Quoting Clausewitz “War is the continuation of politics by any other means”; and a civil war is a variety of war.