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They live in a media bubble devoid of reality. They can contradict themselves in the same breath, or just leave out details. Fox News would totally say something like: “ThE GoVERnMENt is TaKiNg your MeDiCARE!” And conveniently forget the whole part where the Republicans are behind it.
They can just blame stuff like this on liberal socialists and the rubes who put them in office will eat it up all day long. >

"Don't touch my Medicare"  cost Denny Hastert ®  his job. We'll see >

I thought it was because he was a pedo >

Naw GOP that’s not an issue >

Probably loved a democrat. >

Republicans don’t give a fuck about poor people. >

Yet shitloads of poor people vote for them >

Shitloads of poor people don’t vote. Because neither party has any interest in enticing the almost 1/2 the country that doesn’t vote to do so. It would call for concrete action rather than lies from venal old pricks in both parties. >

I really don't think you can blame the parties. Maybe the Republicans who strive for gerrymandered districts so their minority can control the majority of voters. Maybe the Republican party, for the exhaustion it imposes on people - endlessly inciting it's base, be endlessly harassing it's enemies - I bet a lot of people just check out from American politics because they're just crazy, all day. 
But you have a duty to vote. Everyone does. Because checking out from politics leads to places like Russia, where folks are willingly ruled by a despot, simply because he deals with everything for them. >

I was doing some math on the voting population in Texas the other day and got super depressed: 29M people in Texas, 18M registered voters (don't know if I am buying that 11M people are too young to vote, but whatever), only 8M voted in the recent midterms. So that means that just over 4M people are making all of the governance decisions for 29M people. This is the problem. If the registered voters would ALL vote, most of our political problems would go away. >

This is why we need to make voting day a federal holiday. This is also why republicans try so hard to limit access to voting stations. 
With how important voting is and how it is everyone's civic duty, it should be a no-brainer to make it as easy as possible for as many people as possible. It doesn't even matter if it swings things one way or another. >

The people who depend on medicare the most voted for politicians who are going to destroy their lives >

Whenever I bring up this point with MAGA folk they literally just say “no they arnt” and like how do I even respond to that >

How do you convince a lizard to file its taxes early? Same exact way. The issue isn't the lizard, it's the person thinking the lizards are capable of understanding. >

Republicans love cutting the resources of their biggest demographics while pretending they're looking out for them. And their constituents are dumb and old enough to believe it.