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In reply to the discussion: THANK YOU BERNIE SANDERS for speaking the blatant truth when so many won't [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)You write, "But you really need to understand that [Bernie]'s hardly the only one trying to wake America to this grave danger."
OK, thanks for explaining that. (Truth be told, I already understood it, but A for effort.)
I don't know if you're right that all the Democrats in Congress have been speaking out about this, but certainly many of them have. They haven't all been true-blue; IIRC, some of them expressed willingness to consider chained CPI, a covert way to cut Social Security benefits. I don't know how many of them have supported raising or eliminating the earnings cap, an important subject that Bernie mentions in the video. Overall, though, enough of them have been vocal enough that stuff like chained CPI is probably political poison, although Trump may well get away with weakening Social Security indirectly by closing many local offices.
Now here's what you really need to understand: No one has said that Bernie is the only one. He took the trouble to prepare an effective video, so garybeck posted it. Where Bernie's "only one" status comes into play is that, among all the Democrats and all the Independents who align themselves with Democrats, there's only one who gets such incessant bashing on DU. Someone could do a laudatory OP like this about any of the others, and it wouldn't draw this (predictable) barrage of negativity.