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> Social Security, Medicare, and the Military. Three areas of government that have broad bipartisan support. The right wants smaller government, in theory, bu
by rootusrootus 4y ago
> Social Security, Medicare, and the Military.
Three areas of government that have broad bipartisan support. The right wants smaller government, in theory, but they also want to "keep the government out of my Medicare!" So the spending isn't ever going to down, only up.
- corrral 4y agoRepublican dislike of social programs (I mean their voters, not the politicians) is largely a marketing thing, not based on what the programs actually do. You poll people on whether they support Social Program X, you get a very different result from if you describe a hypothetical program that just happens to do exactly what Social Program X does, and ask them if they would support that. For extra comedic value you can also ask if they'd like to replace Program They Hate with this new program that's identical. A similar hating-the-label-not-the-thing effect is how you get nonsensical shit like people apparently thinking Medicare isn't "socialized medicine". If they like it, it must not be [Bad Thing].