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[โ€“] redparadise@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why would republicans be against privatising social security?

[โ€“] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ideologically, they're not, but at the time, they saw it as electoral suicide. Reagan wanted to do it as well, (and ran on it iirc) but faced strong opposition to it from his own staff.

edit: Bonus Obama lore.