They don't want it gone. They don't believe their team will actually hurt them. Despite many years of the GOP promising to do it.

A boomer would eat a shit sandwhich if it meant that those after them had to smell their breath.

Honestly, I'm in the EU and I fully expect the same thing to happen here, just more gradually than in the US. I will never be able to get out of social security what I've been forced to put in my entire life. And that would be okay if it meant it went to people who actually needed it...

Because the most important thing to a Boomer is the identity of a victim who had it tougher than you and 'turned out fine', and you should stop whining and be grateful for everything you've been given, because your effort is always inferior to their effort, by definition.

They literally cannot cognitively concieve of the concept that they can be wrong or make mistakes or ever have made a wrong decision or supported a bad idea.

They are literally suicidally vain, they would rather be in a constant state of paranoid fear, delusion and confusion, and vote in people who literally will kill them by proxy by taking away their health, housing, retirement and food benefits... and then they'll demand their children take care of them.

Why do you think there is a whole social media trend of adult kids going no contact with their boomer parents?

They're absurdly delusional sociopathic narcissists.

(Disclaimer: I do not mean literally every single Boomer, obviously there are many who are not like this and are great people who've been trying to stop this madness most of their adult lives... but yeah, overall? The generation that grew up in the most freakishly abnormal explosion of broad societal wealth increase, class mobility and technological progress in the history of the country, possible the entire world... uh yeah, their frame of reference for 'normal' is an anomalous and basically unorecedented event in the known history of economics, and that has royally fucked up their perspective.)

(Barring what China's managed to do in the last 40ish years, anyway)

(Also, the main reason this economic boom occured was because post WW2, basically every single other advanced industrial society had been bombed into oblivion, and the US was the only country that could make shit at scale. Thats it.)

Nobody in that coalition wants to think about their shit real life pulling in social security and living in a ticky tacky detached shitbox off a stroad in a suburb; they all envision themselves as temporarily inconvenienced mega millionaires whose biggest problem would be the capital gains tax rate if only those dang immigrants, brown people, women, and purple-haired hippies would stop repressing them. It's e the American way!

They're idiots. Oh, and they've swallowed the propaganda whole and asked for seconds.

Because they are fucking brain dead.

Frankly, at this point, I want them to get $0 checks and realize they fucked up as they lay dying. My last fuck for those people went out the window a long fucking time ago. Congrats, they got exactly what they fuck they voted for. Now go run off and die and let us start rebuilding without the societal anchors they are.

Boomers? I see lots of people of all ages voting Republican, so I don't think any of this is confined to just one age demographic...

I don't know if my brain is addled by the sheer amount of mudslinging he does, but I can't think of another politician that has publicly had issues with more than one or two people.

Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, various governors, AOC, Pelosi, various mayors. I actually can't even list all of the people Trump has had to "rescue America" from.

Problem is the pendulum did swing back but it swung to the "left" aka to neolibs. Now it's been broken and swung so far to the right that I hope it responds in kind next time around and we get actual progressives in office.