by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The Final Question in the Trump era is — if Trump somehow fucks with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid so they don’t work properly as people have always assumed, will there be any substantive consequences?
If Social Security checks aren’t cut, will people just shrug and let Trump get away with it, or will there be things like a General Strike or massive protests or whatnot. I honestly don’t know.
Americans are so fucking complacent and just want to make money that it could be that Trump will touch the third rail of politics, Social Security, and nothing of note will happen. If Trump really does get away with doing such a thing, then he will have passed through his last barrier to being a true dictator.
Fucking with Social Security is the only thing I can think of that might, just might cause Trump to finally either be deposed or at least, in some way behave. But there is just as much a chance that he will double down and use any protests as an excuse to declare martial law and that will be that — the United States will finally be a fascist military dictatorship.
I honestly don’t know what will happen if Trump moots Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. It’s very much up in the air because I suspect that MAGA, so busy sucking on the teet of racism, will figure out a way to even rationalize something as profound as the end of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
They just might really be willing to let Trump pull it off.
