Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The GOP says it wants to destroy Social Security for two reasons: first, to promote ...
The GOP says it wants to destroy Social Security for two reasons: first, to promote "choice" by letting us provide for our own retirement by flushing even more of our savings into the rigged casino that is the stock market; and second, because American doesn't have enough dollars to feed and house the elderly.
But for the #NYTimes' audience, they've figured out how to launder this far-right nonsense through the language of social justice.
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