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In reply to the discussion: Someone didn't get the lesson in 2010 [View all]eridani
(51,907 posts)Just like they are going to pose as defenders of Social Security in 2014.
In 2010, Dems absolutely refused to counter the Repubs' message that the ACA was an attack on Medicare. In reality, all ACA did was cut subsidies to private Medicare plans, and Dems were too gutless to defend public Medicare (or public anything) with the values-based message that public goods are GOOD! Pissy little lists of microconstituencies benefitting from ACA did nothing to counter the values-based Repub attack.
In 2010, Repukes are already lining up against the chained CPI, avoiding mention of all their previous attacks on seniors. And if the centrists persist in their silliness about how giving the lowest beneficiary quintile a pittance which will do nothing to pull them out of REAL (as opposed to highly inaccurate Census Bureau) poverty while blowing off the fact that the chained CPI will be forcing quintiles 2, 3 and 4 INTO real poverty, we are going to get creamed again. (Quintile 5 will be fine no matter what happens.)