Obama's Social Security Talk Is Turning Voters Off, Pollsters Say
I think that the Democratic Party clearly, definitely and purposefully already HAS defined itself: it is the party that wants to gain power and be in charge.
It has decided that most efficient and effective way to do that is to make the wealthy happy, because the wealthy will give them money to campaign and buy elections. This is the fastest and most pleasant way to win elections. In the meantime they take you to golfing resorts, lend you their airplanes, hire your relatives and take you out to nice dinners.
Average working people can’t do any of that for you. And you still have to walk around in the snow in New Hampshire and ask them to vote for you. This is demeaning and tiresome.
Why do what even a majority of average people want, when you can get the same result by pleasing a minority of wealthy people?
And like the dishonest steward in Jesus’ parable, by making friends with the master’s money, you will be welcomed into their homes (and given high-paying jobs) after you have been turned out of office.
The “Democratic Party” is not going to do scheisse for us, and there is no point wasting our time trying to get it to revive populist values that it never really had.
“You dumb son-of-a-bitch! We ain’t one-at-a-timin’ here. We’re MASS communicatin!” Pappy O’Daniel
Obama's Social Security Talk Is Turning Voters Off, Pollsters Say
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's apparent willingness to consider cuts in Social Security benefits may be winning him points with Washington elites, but it's killing him with voters, who see the program as inviolate and may start to wonder what the Democratic Party stands for, if not for Social Security.
That's the conclusion of three top progressive pollsters who spoke to reporters Wednesday at a briefing sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute, the Century Foundation and Demos.
"For the public, cutting benefits is the problem, not the solution," said Guy Molyneux, a partner at Hart Research Associates.
As a result, the pollsters said that any Democrat seeking elected office in 2012 should be begging Obama not to say anything about Social Security cuts in his State of the Union address later this month.
It has decided that most efficient and effective way to do that is to make the wealthy happy, because the wealthy will give them money to campaign and buy elections. This is the fastest and most pleasant way to win elections. In the meantime they take you to golfing resorts, lend you their airplanes, hire your relatives and take you out to nice dinners.
Average working people can’t do any of that for you. And you still have to walk around in the snow in New Hampshire and ask them to vote for you. This is demeaning and tiresome.
Why do what even a majority of average people want, when you can get the same result by pleasing a minority of wealthy people?
And like the dishonest steward in Jesus’ parable, by making friends with the master’s money, you will be welcomed into their homes (and given high-paying jobs) after you have been turned out of office.
The “Democratic Party” is not going to do scheisse for us, and there is no point wasting our time trying to get it to revive populist values that it never really had.
“You dumb son-of-a-bitch! We ain’t one-at-a-timin’ here. We’re MASS communicatin!” Pappy O’Daniel
Obama's Social Security Talk Is Turning Voters Off, Pollsters Say
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's apparent willingness to consider cuts in Social Security benefits may be winning him points with Washington elites, but it's killing him with voters, who see the program as inviolate and may start to wonder what the Democratic Party stands for, if not for Social Security.
That's the conclusion of three top progressive pollsters who spoke to reporters Wednesday at a briefing sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute, the Century Foundation and Demos.
"For the public, cutting benefits is the problem, not the solution," said Guy Molyneux, a partner at Hart Research Associates.
As a result, the pollsters said that any Democrat seeking elected office in 2012 should be begging Obama not to say anything about Social Security cuts in his State of the Union address later this month.
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