Social Security Privatization Fantasies and Conservatives' Insanity
How is it possible that Social Security was in the news again this week? One answer is that the accumulated outrages of the past six-plus months are mostly already old news. The United States military was deployed in Los Angeles. Citizens and legal residents are hiding in their homes for fear of being swept off the streets. At least 17 million people will soon lose access to health care. The US bombed Iran. University administrators are serially abetting the death of academic freedom. Thousands of people have been sent -- most without even being able to prove that they are the victims of error or worse -- to gulags both inside and outside of the country. Also, the Supreme Court -- led by a Chief Justice whose pose as "the ultimate institutionalist" has finally been exposed as a sham -- is letting the Trump White House do anything it wants. Attacks on trans people and other vulnerable groups continue. Donald Trump is relentlessly thre...