I don't even understand why the boomers want this shit gone — so many of them rely on Medicare and SSI entirely. They all claim that because they 'paid into it their whole lives' that they are due a disbursement. But like usual, boomers are concerned about theirs; none of us who have been working for almost 20 years at this point will receive the same benefit.
Because the most important thing to a Boomer is the identity of a victim who had it tougher than you and 'turned out fine', and you should stop whining and be grateful for everything you've been given, because your effort is always inferior to their effort, by definition.
They literally cannot cognitively concieve of the concept that they can be wrong or make mistakes or ever have made a wrong decision or supported a bad idea.
They are literally suicidally vain, they would rather be in a constant state of paranoid fear, delusion and confusion, and vote in people who literally will kill them by proxy by taking away their health, housing, retirement and food benefits... and then they'll demand their children take care of them.
Why do you think there is a whole social media trend of adult kids going no contact with their boomer parents?
(Disclaimer: I do not mean literally every single Boomer, obviously there are many who are not like this and are great people who've been trying to stop this madness most of their adult lives... but yeah, overall? The generation that grew up in the most freakishly abnormal explosion of broad societal wealth increase, class mobility and technological progress in the history of the country, possible the entire world... uh yeah, their frame of reference for 'normal' is an anomalous and basically unorecedented event in the known history of economics, and that has royally fucked up their perspective.)
(Barring what China's managed to do in the last 40ish years, anyway)
(Also, the main reason this economic boom occured was because post WW2, basically every single other advanced industrial society had been bombed into oblivion, and the US was the only country that could make shit at scale. Thats it.)
Frankly, at this point, I want them to get $0 checks and realize they fucked up as they lay dying. My last fuck for those people went out the window a long fucking time ago. Congrats, they got exactly what they fuck they voted for. Now go run off and die and let us start rebuilding without the societal anchors they are.
Honestly, I'm in the EU and I fully expect the same thing to happen here, just more gradually than in the US.
I will never be able to get out of social security what I've been forced to put in my entire life. And that would be okay if it meant it went to people who actually needed it...
Honestly the only hope I have is that once the Trump clique breaks everything down and the are ousted the American people can get together and remake everything, maybe even better than it was. They did it once before.
Though I'm afraid that will only happen when the people reach a breaking point and that will lead to a lot of violence. Make sure to prepare for the worst and stay safe out there.
This is what a dictator does. He dictates and the subservient do as they are told without defying his order so that they might, oh I don't know, try to represent you and your interests?
Y'all love to claim you love America and yet you're oh so eager to throw away the concept of THREE COEQUAL BRANCHES. Not one dick tater, a rubber stamp court that can be ignored, and room full of clowns that write the decrees of the dick tater to make it all legal like.
I don't know if my brain is addled by the sheer amount of mudslinging he does, but I can't think of another politician that has publicly had issues with more than one or two people.
Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, various governors, AOC, Pelosi, various mayors. I actually can't even list all of the people Trump has had to "rescue America" from.
That was my hope after bush 2, then again after first trump term. Then the country provided republicons every lever of power as a reward. I'm not holding my breath of anything swinging anywhere.
Problem is the pendulum did swing back but it swung to the "left" aka to neolibs. Now it's been broken and swung so far to the right that I hope it responds in kind next time around and we get actual progressives in office.