As a poor, retired senior of 72, even if Social Security is not slashed and eliminated,

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14. If that's the case, then it's worked. Because I would be a fool after this to have blind faith

in the government. But Republicans are willing to play the long game to attain their goals.
Take Roe for instance. It took the right-to-life crowd 49 years to attain their goal and they never gave up. Meanwhile, those of us on the Left took Roe to be a done deal and all but a guaranteed constitutional right. So you got to give the right credit for their tenacity as much as I would disagree with their views.
My criticism of the Left is that too often, too many of us can be complacent about voting and over-confident about its results. I think last year that too many Democrats were overconfident and believed Harris was a lock to win because, after all, who but the maga cult would ever vote for Trump? We were complacent about the possibility of an election being stolen from us because we are too smart and sophisticated for that to happen. All of the swing states were close, yet somehow Trump managed to win every one of them.
I sure hope we get the chance to vote again, but I am doubtful at this point.