Overheard a Republican in my local Subway today

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20. One of the few silver linings that I see

on the very dark clouds that surround us, is that one third of the voters don't vote. If Democrats could educate a large enough slice of that group I think that in much of the country it could tilt the scales. But education is key. If the Republicans get rid of Social Security and Medicare and most of the old people have to sell their houses to pay for living expenses and health care and the economy goes into a tailspin, if the Republicans can successfully blame it on the Democrats even that huge problem would not be enough to mobilize the middle in a productive way.