Why shouldn't Social Security age be raised for future generations?

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27. I respect that, but...

But it seems to me that the system needs (and in a sense has) an exception that allows for flexibility around the nature of the job. You can't really say "these jobs get to retire early and those don't", but you can provide a physical capability exception... which we already do... it's disability.

Now perhaps the framing of it should be revised to "inability" or something less stigmatized. But in broad terms, it seems like a higher retirement age that fits both the math of the system and the reality of life expectancy for future generations is needed.

I just think that if Dems set themselves up to see ANY changes to SS as a devastating loss... in the same way that happened when ObamaCare looked more like RomneyCare than HillaryCare ... we are creating a sort of circular firing squad that cost us the 2010 elections.

That would be bad for the full arc of Obama's presidency.

We need to see the intermediate steps that are being taken in support of progressive policy goals for the value that they bring rather than the devastation of the loss of the grad goal we hope for.

I guess we need to embrace our own slippery slope where the slope points to progressive policy.