• MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It seems like nothing they say matters anymore. Some Republicans want to get rid of Medicare. You would think this would lose them massive votes among the elderly, their biggest constituency. But it just doesn’t seem to matter.

    • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      These people will consistently vote against their own best interest to “own the libs” which I’m not even sure what that means at this point.

    • Techmaster@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because they aren’t taking Medicare away from the elderly. They’ve been proposing to take it away from gen x and future generations. The boomers still get theirs under all the proposals I’ve seen.

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        1 year ago

        It’d be stupid, but it’s love for someone to run on the platform of immediately defunding Medicare just to see the heads spin, and expose the hypocrisy