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Individual-Doubt404 t1_irfax6m wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in 12 News/RWU Poll: Fung leads Magaziner in race for Congress by GhostOpera406

You intentionally insulted me up until you realized your insults don't apply to me and now I'M at fault for taking you to task? What if you, yes I'm looking at you u/prosaicnation , stop playing helpless victim to boogie man Boomers and answer an unsolicited call or two during polling season. It's the prosaic thing to do.

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[deleted] t1_irfdefe wrote

How is it insulting if it doesn't apply to you? That is a logical error. It either applies to you and you can be insulted or it doesn't and you can just go on your merry way. It was intentionally insulting to the group of people it applies to, of whom there are MANY as evidenced by the amount of downvotes I am getting.

Never once did I make myself the helpless victim. My point, as I will say again, is that these polls are inherently weighted to OLD PEOPLE due to the very nature of how they conduct them. And as we know OLD PEOPLE make up the majority of republican voters.

Let's make up a new poll for boomers. A hypothetical- would you rather.

  1. would you rather give up 10% of your social security to ensure the program lasted for the next 4 generations?

or

  1. Keep your entire payment knowing that the entire system would fail for the next generation who had already spent most of their working lives paying into the system?

You can vote any way you like but don't tell me you don't already know the way that vote would go down.

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william1Bastard t1_irfwwot wrote

Oh I think we know the answer to that. It'd be the same, even if pharma and other consumer industries were reigned in. They're all terrified of death, but their collective fear of losing their own personal American dream is much more palpable. They feel entitled to the niceties of their parents, regardless of reality. Mind you that this is a reality that lawmakers of their generation are fighting tooth and nail to further. It's an ouroboros of boomer/early gen x trash.

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