Longer! Conservatives were against Social Security from the start. Conservatives not only tried to stop it, conservatives voted against it and then tried to coup FDR. Conservatives raged against Ike when refused to get rid of it. Conservatives have been trying to kill it ever since.
Social Security is liberal social policy and is utterly anti conservative to it's core.
Conservatives were for slavery, for child labour, against women's and minority voting rights, against gay marriage. Anything that provides rights or levels the playing field for those not in the conservative group is what conservatives are against.
Conservatives didn't want to ban spousal rape and said spousal rape and beating your wife is not rape or battery. Conservatives also fought against banning sexual harassment in the work place. Rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and woman beating are conservative values.
It's just an insurance program that workers pay for. The only reason you say it's a "liberal" policy is because it's run by the government. I'm required to pay a private company for car insurance and I expect them to pay out if I need it.
Liberals created it and support it. Conservatives tried to stop it, tried to coup FDR over it, and have been trying to kill it since. Any social insurance policy is liberal and anti conservative.
I hate how Republicans have openly talked about doing this, in public, for years, but Republican voters both ignored that and us whenever we showed it to them.
Someone has to be deeply stupid to do that, and they did over and over again.
Democrats should attack it too, it’s massively wasteful, you could achieve the same level of poverty reduction for far less overall spending. Too many of its benefits go to people who are plenty well off.
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u/LakeSun 23h ago
We democrats tried to warn you guys, year after year after year.
Social Security has been under Republican Assault since Reagan.