Surely you are not that dense! I suppose young people will never understand what it is like to pay into something for decades until they have done it. Then, I suppose, it will mean something to them. Just human nature I guess. I was once young and right too.
If the next generation must pay for my SS, then I suppose that I have been paying for the generation before me for the last 40 years. All that is basically irrelevant to me. My biggest issue is that my wages have been taxed for all of these years, with the promise that my money would work for me...
The vast majority of people in this country think that they are free. To question this idea is not in vogue at the present time. Libertarians are viewed as disgruntled.
I can't see how affecting the platform at the convention will accomplish anything. These lying GOP regulars have been preaching limited gov and less spending/taxes for years and you see what you get. And thats not counting their American Empire fantasies. I just don't see the point.
I have read this whole thread and I have to say that Cheapseats is right. My personal feeling is that RP has degraded himself by associating himself with the GOP. This country needs and wants sweeping changes, and they will not happen inside either of the establishment institutions. The times...