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In reply to the discussion: Trump pissed off AARP, he's toast with his budget..... [View all]MiddleClass
(888 posts)The last election seniors went for Trump, 53% 45%, but as a group, despite leaning conservative, watch for shenanigans by either in relation to Medicare or Social Security.
It's my assumption: some will buy into Republican talking points, but if it's in the AARP bulletin, it will soak in, be it at the diner, center, golf course, shuffleboard, exercise class, crowdsourcing amongst seniors is strong.
I understand that younger voters tend to be more liberal, whereas older voters need to conserve the status quo (meaning Social Security Medicare their home their way of life). I honestly Cannot understand totally buying into ideology that's going to totally wreck that so-called status quo. Examples, tea party "keep your government hands off my Medicare" while voting for privatization of Medicare.
I tried to understand why people vote the way they do, everybody sees things from their own point of view, that's democracy and the way it should be.
I'd like to qualify that 100,000,000 number, AARP bulletin goes out to roughly 50,000,000, there is another 30,000,000 disabled who do not vote with regularity, but the population is aging and the numbers are increasing at a rapid number. That's why the worker participation rate is so low, I believe it's roughly around 110,000,000, so add up retirees/disabled + employed + children and you have 330,000,000 in America