General Discussion

Historically and technically true, but conservatives and the right have been having a field day with that for years while pushing the "personal responsibility bootstrap narrative." That shit is hauled out in every right-wing push to cut benefits and raise the retirement age further. The left should be talking about raising benefits, expanding Social Security, and lowering the retirement age. Not buying into the right-wing narrative. "We" can't afford that is not a legitimate argument when trillions are being funneled into the war machine, political pork, corporate government grift, Wall Street schemes, and on and on. A supposed government of the people has become nothing other than a vehicle for funneling wealth to the top 10-20 percent of the economic pyramid while the majority can eat shit and die in retirement after a lifetime of toil. The rest of all political posturing is noise to distract from that fact.