I don't think the deleterious effects need to be felt. I think they only need to be threatened. No one except a very few libertarians will stand for the loss of SSI. Medicare is a close second.
I don't think the deleterious effects need to be felt. I think they only need to be threatened. No one except a very few libertarians will stand for the loss of SSI. Medicare is a close second.
But Anne, I think the effects of his policies need to be (and will be, except for the peivileged in this country) widespread and, dare I say it again, severe. Much of the 2024 Biden and then the Harris campaign was warning us of what might happen with Trump elected, and especially with Republicans in control. Project 2025, which underlies the proposed policies, was so toxic that Trump tried to run from it. America apparently didn't take those threats seriously.
We can debate about the political likelihood of the potential loss of SSI, but that's just one of the many ramifications of Project 2025.
I agree with you. I love Timothy Snyder's post comparing the Trump presidency to Gilligan's Island. It's upliftingly funny. But Snyder, as an authority on authoritarianism, states clearly in that post that there will be suffering. WW ll is what I come back to when I start to feel sick. We must keep ourselves healthy so that we can continue to resist.
Doug, I tend to agree with what I am inferring from what you write here: most of us are too busy, worn-out, and / or resigned to pay attention before the schei├Яe hits the fan.
What is insane of cutting social security is that we paid into it and earned a very prudent rate of return (risk-free treasury rates). The problem may be that the trust fund was looted by opportunistic politicoes from both Parties.
I don't think the deleterious effects need to be felt. I think they only need to be threatened. No one except a very few libertarians will stand for the loss of SSI. Medicare is a close second.
But Anne, I think the effects of his policies need to be (and will be, except for the peivileged in this country) widespread and, dare I say it again, severe. Much of the 2024 Biden and then the Harris campaign was warning us of what might happen with Trump elected, and especially with Republicans in control. Project 2025, which underlies the proposed policies, was so toxic that Trump tried to run from it. America apparently didn't take those threats seriously.
We can debate about the political likelihood of the potential loss of SSI, but that's just one of the many ramifications of Project 2025.
I agree with you. I love Timothy Snyder's post comparing the Trump presidency to Gilligan's Island. It's upliftingly funny. But Snyder, as an authority on authoritarianism, states clearly in that post that there will be suffering. WW ll is what I come back to when I start to feel sick. We must keep ourselves healthy so that we can continue to resist.
Doug, I tend to agree with what I am inferring from what you write here: most of us are too busy, worn-out, and / or resigned to pay attention before the schei├Яe hits the fan.
What is insane of cutting social security is that we paid into it and earned a very prudent rate of return (risk-free treasury rates). The problem may be that the trust fund was looted by opportunistic politicoes from both Parties.