Democrats with death wishes or trolls?

[JDPriestly]

52. Welcome to DU. On this website, we do not all have to agree with the president all the time.

I am a Democrat, not an Obamacrat. I really like Obama, but frankly, he was born a long time after I was. I was a Democrat from childhood on, long before he was born.

Social Security is the keystone policy of the Democratic Party.

Social Security was enacted long before Obama was born. Those of us who are defending it are thinking in the long term. Obama is the short term.

Please note my post count. I am a loyal Democrat. I worked hard to make sure Obama would be elected as did many other seniors like me.

The chained CPI is an abomination and a betrayal.

We older people now on Social Security paid the tax rates that working people and the wealthy will pay in January. It did not hurt us. It helped the economy.

Blaming generations that paid those slightly higher tax rates and cutting back on the earned benefits of the generations that paid the higher tax rates is a terrible, immoral thing to do.

I am still young enough to criticize incompetence and error. I am now old enough to have the benefit of a view of history that makes me qualified to recognize incompetence and error.

Democrats who do not understand what a serious blow the chained CPI would be to the Democratic Party (considering Social Security is a cornerstone of our party historically, practically and morally) will learn a hard lesson should the chained CPI become law.

Democrats won the election. To discuss chipping away at Social Security via the chained CPI after winning that big in a contentious election is equivalent to throwing away all the hard work we did.

I am no troll. I am simply honest and a lifelong Democrat.