We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Social Security!

I don’t know what pisses me off more — the egregious lying by the GOP about their opposition to entitlements, or the willingness of the liberal Fake News to let the GOP off the hook. But either way, the bottom line is that the current political narrative as we move towards 2024 is nothing but bunch of goddamn lies.

The GOP doesn’t want to cut social security? The social security system was created by a law passed in 1935 (the picture above is FDR signing the bill.) The following year, Roosevelt won re-election against Alf Landon, the Governor of Kansas. Landon (whose daughter, Nancy Kassebaum, was the Kansas Senator from 1978 to 1997) refused to campaign in 1936 because the same GOP which nominated him also endorsed a platform which opposed every legislative piece of the New Deal.

The government’s attempt to lift the national economy out of a crater in which industrial capacity had fallen to 5% (during the worst month of the 2008 recession the capacity was 68%) and every state bank had closed, was pronounced by the GOP as ‘socialism’ or ‘communism’ or worse. Sound familiar?

The GOP and its conservative allies didn’t curb their opposition to Social Security after the 1936 contest, which was a national referendum on the government intervening in personal, financial affairs. To the contrary, the GOP continued to challenge…