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Millennials were fucked repeatedly by the economy and still are and now other generations. But nah let’s let these boomer assholes just destroy everything and turn the country into a giant trailer park of inbreds.
This is such an easy problem to solve.
Let them repeal Medicare.
Within a month either half the boomers will be dying, OR, you'll have an army of 5 million boomers charging the white house to gadaffi the orange fuck unless he gives them back their viagra.
Or.Suspend social security, if you want to guarantee the latter.
Those outcomes are the explicit reasons they HAVEN'T repealed those programs in the past. Gutted them several times over, turned them into money piles for The Rich, yes, but never, EVER actually tried to repeal them. They've campaigned against these programs for DECADES, screaming about how awful they are, how they'll get rid of them and then everyone will be wealthy, for YEARS!!!
But they haven't. As a political scapegoat, they're too damn useful; they consistently get a major voting bloc motivated and just plain angry enough to head to the polls and knowingly, openly vote against their own interests. But more than that, they know that those same people, the ones frothing at the mouth against the immigrant, the queer, and the minority, are the ones who will suffer most should these programs fail, leading them to direct their anger at those who caused it.
And so, the programs persist, for should they actually fail, heads will roll...
Which is exactly why we should encourage them to grab that third rail with both hands and not let go.
I want to see a president face a real-time, physical referendum on their performance.