===> A casual addendum from my Deep South correspondent.
valis
I was just thinking, looking at the pattern over the past 40 years,
that "vampire" behavior is predictable. The next victim is almost
always in the low-key buzz of the right-wing think tanks today.
While the assault on SS is taking all the publicity, the mind of
the public is quietly and gently being prepared for the next assault.
Consider the preparation for the SS battle. We'd been hearing for
a decade how "people 30 years old won't ever get their benefits."
Most people have come to believe that. Facts and figures seem not
to have much effect in the face of that kind of indoctrination.
The interesting part is that it's not a conspiracy, at least not
as far as I can tell. As Sam Smith once wrote, "You don't need
a conspiracy when you have a culture."
Social Security, BTW, is THE big battle, in my opinion.
Lose SS and Hobbes comes to mind.
The Optimist
