Joe Miller: on social security " But longer term there is no question there has to be a transition".
Prior to the Civil War, "States Rights", was used by the slave owning states to justify their position and has reappeared in American politics every time the Federal Government enacts legislation expanding social programs. The better off whites see this as a give-away to undeserving minorities money that will be taken from them in higher taxes.
The mob will use this argument to not only repeal and radically dilute social programs, but to limit the Federal Government's right to make such laws in the first place. Once again, the ruse of states rights is being called on to advance a racist agenda.
Only two years after taking control of the executive and legislative branches of government, Progressives find themselves on the defensive and struggling to hang on. Why?
The short answer is the economy. A longer answer would include the disproportionate impact on the electorate of the Tea Party and the new funding landscape created by the Citizens United case. But, as important as all of these issues are, they do not fully answer the question.
Would the Democrats be in the shape they are in now, if, for example, Joe Biden had been elected president? He would still have had the economy to contend with, but the outrage factor would be much less in my opinion. I also doubt that the Tea Party would exist in its present form again, in my opinion.
Although the classic confrontation of conservative vs. progressive continues, the election of Barack Obama has heightened the awareness of race and class in America and, in particular, the entitlement programs of Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.
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