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Removing social security and or Medicare would quite literally kill a lot of these people. WTF did they think would happen?
These people have been voting against their own well-being for decades.
I think they expect it to gradually sunset and not impact them. Then they can leave "less of a deficit" for their kids.
I'd rather have the entitlements.
I’ve been paying the entitlement since age 17. If I don’t get it then I want a full refund check.
Most of them still will. But it won't take much of a shift in that demo to drastically shift the outcome of the election.
It really is a matter of ten years and then we’re left with the youngest boomers who are basically ancient Gen X.
People don't vote for Trump for rational reasons. They vote for him to have their hate and resentment validated.
Except they are being lied to about medicare and social security NOT being cut
Edit: i pulled this from r/conservative
I genuinely had to stop and think if that image was satirical, but nope, it's real
Right? I was doing the same thing when i first came across it. Definitely not satirical
1 and 2 are already a lie. They can't deport migrants because their voters need cheap migrant labor to not go out of business, and it would go against point 3, keeping things affordable. And they need the bogeyman. If there is no migrant threat there are no votes.
But nobody said the people voting for them were rationally thinking about these points.
Well, you wonder why they would rather have Trump than Biden then...