Reply #49: Huh? [View All]

If by "lofty regal notions of how life should be" you mean "not living in poverty in old age" (like generations did before the New Deal) then yeah, that's probably what most people would want.

Beyond that I wouldn't claim to know how even a single person defines something as broad as "how life should be", let alone a huge swath of the population encompassing everyone between the ages of 45 & 64. I wouldn't claim to know that because 1) it's impossible to know such a thing, and 2) demonizing large groups of a population based on race, or nationality, or ______, or age, would make me look prejudiced and ignorant.

Furthermore, it would involve buying into the brain-dead, generational warfare bullshit republicans like to push so that someday, when the sheeple are sufficiently softened up to the idea, they will be able to renege on the treasury bonds in the SS trust fund and destroy Social Security, like they have been trying to do since the day it was instituted.

Fortunately, they have yet to encounter a generation that is dumb enough to buy into their bullshit. And I'm sure that you, being a smart, educated, liberal sort of guy who frequents a liberal site such as DU, can see right through their bullshit too.