My reply to an honest question to the community.
What happens if Democrats cut back Social Security benefits and raise the retirement age?
What happens if Blue Dogs and Conservative Democrats join with Republicans to vote for such a measure?
I paraphrase these questions from the original, and I offer this prediction.
The $hit WILL hit the fan
and damned well it should.
If the deficits created by tax cuts for the rich, endless war profiteering, and the unfettered greed of the Corporo-Feudal Plutocrats is "solved" by forcing the serfs to work another 5 yrs then the $hit damned well SHOULD hit the fan, or we are really funked.
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If the retirement age is raised during a Democratic Presidency and/or under a Democratic congress to "solve" the problems created by giving the rich and corporate special interests damn near everything they have demanded the $hit will hit the fan for the Democratic party and President Obama if it happens their watch.
The youth vote? GONE. Ain't gonna vote for someone who adds 5 yrs to my retirement, specially if that retirement is now FIVE DECADES AWAY.
Republicans can get away with this, largely because their voting base is varying degrees of misinformed, prejudiced and hateful, and because the Corporate owned media will NEVER call them on it.
Deficits are the new Weapons of Mass Destruction. Trumped up bullshit to further the Shock Doctrine.
It will be political suicide for the entire Democratic party if they raise the retirement age. If you think voter entusiasm looks bad now, you have no idea how bad it will get. Because the Democratic leaning voter KNOWS that tax cuts for the rich, endless war profiteering and Corporate special interests caused this disaster, and if we proles and indentured servants must work another 5 yrs to pay for our fuedal lords plutonomy, then FUCK YEAH the $hit damned well better hit the fan.