Middle-aged people make the most money...

[cthulu2016]

In a rational world, people 45-55 would be storming the Bastille over the prospect of RW medicare plans while the elderly would be less concerned.

Later middle-aged people have lived their lives with the assumption medicare would be there for them, and are too far along to re-make all life decisions in the context of medicare not being in their future.

But later middle-aged people have the highest incomes. (Not wealth, incomes.) So they are the most excited about the idea of tax-cuts.

They are like 20-somethings who don't think they need health insurance. They are not eligible for medicare today, but they do pay taxes today.

It's weird, but understandable.

Anyway, any person who is 50-55 years old today should be terrified. That age group should go for Obama 90%. But Romney will probably win that age group narrowly.

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. Not weird, just plain stupid. n/t

[cthulu2016]

2. Since such stupidity is commonplace I take your point

I guess we cannot call the norm 'weird'

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. We now live in a nation that is becoming a frightening joke to the rest of the world and this is the

reason. We have become exactly what we once knew to be absolutely evil.

Amercia is a parody of America. An ignorant, dimwitted, psychopathic clown with nuclear weapons and the biggest military on earth. The rest of the world is leaving us behind and we're so arrogant and ignorant of that world, that we have yet to notice. If the Nazis arose today, I have no doubt that we would fight for them.

Your OP is absolutely right and the fact that so few see that truth just shows how far we've fallen. So no, not weird, it is the new normal and we love it.

[flamingdem]

4. You can see on DU that this group is terrified

Many out there just don't realize what could happen to them.. that should be clear after the debates.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Those who would vote for Romney believe secretly that somehow

Medicare will be saved, reason will prevail, etc. It frees them up to vote for whomever they'd rather identify with. They're "sending a message" when they vote, not actually voting for the results the GOP will produce.