We could decimate the republicans with Social Security

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We could hammer it, yell about it, blow it out and up until it pops - all the while expressing, and inflaming, the public's doubts and fears about what bush and the republicans want to do. We win this.

But its more than that - its about what Bush and the republicans think of the people - middle America - in all its segments. WE, acting as shocked defenders of the average American's interest, could really hammer home the message of who really has their best interest at heart.

This issue cuts across all boundaries. When you're talking about how and if you're going to be able to eat and maintain shelter and pay protection money to the drug companies, you're no longer white or black or Baptist or Catholic or straight or gay - you're an American watching his republican-controlled government try to break the only promise its ever kept.

This is a winning issue, and we should milk it for all its worth. I think its lethal to the other side. Its not called the third rail for nothing.

We are the people, and should be, loudly, them - not giving an inch, in fact, calling for increases in SS spending, putting a human face on it, and at every single opportunity, show that WE are the ones on their, the people's, side, painting bush and the repubs as villains who throw money around with the pentagon and big corporations, but expect "the people" to sacrifice the one guaranteed bit of security they've always counted on.

Its us against them, only this time, bush and the repubs are "them."

There's so much more we could do here than just win the argument. We could use SS to slay the repubs. We could turn their world upsidedown. And we should. This is the issue.


(edited for minor spelling and grammar errors)