Honest question...Why would anyone trust the republicans to craft a good social program?

[unitedwethrive]

They have always been the party against social programs...it doesn't make any sense that they have all of a sudden changed. Why is the media giving them any benefit that maybe this time they are suddenly for the middle class? "We'll have to wait and see the text of the measure and see the CBO score." Are they just bending over backward to be objective, or do they think we haven't been paying attention the last, say, 50 years.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. People have been buying the bullshit

about "The Welfare State" and how terrible unions are and other such lies for a very long time now. Too many people believe them.

And underlying problem is that not only is history often badly taught in middle and high school, but most kids simply don't care about history, haven't a clue that what did people did or said or thought could possibly matter to them. Many parents (maybe most) are equally dismissive and ignorant of history.

Hardly anyone is still alive who remembers the strikes of the 1930's and earlier, what union organizers actually went through to make jobs safer, pay decently, have benefits. I think a lot of people are only capable of focussing on how awful it is to pay union dues, just as they think all of their taxes are wasted except for maybe those that pay for our bloated military. They haven't a clue that the union protects them or that taxes help provide decent schools, roads, police and fire fighters, just to name a few that are the most obvious benefits.

In short, a lot of people are idiots.