The GOP would like to have some words with you.

 "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".

~JFK

Yep, JFK said that. It kinda sounds like something Trump would say if he could speak in complete sentences. It really could be the slogan of the current (maga) republican party, if they could have complete thoughts. If they had a party platform, that would be a very good one. What they are doing is a perverted interpretation of JFK's famous quote.

Since Reagan in 1980 came on the scene with his own famous quote about the nine most dangerous words being, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help", they have bent over backwards being anything but helpful to the American public. Essentially, they ran on the old republican saw of "small gubmint". One could think that meant they were going to streamline it, cut waste and spending, kinda fine tune it to make it run better. These are pretty good sentiments- if you don't think about them. That's the key. They do not want you to think about it. Eat the sausage. Don't worry about how it is made. 

Come January 20, we are going to see how the sausage is made. It won't be pretty. 

The GOP has been wanting to get rid of Social Security since FDR created it. They saw it as "socialism" which, even back then they viewed as "communism". Led Zepplin taught us that, you know sometimes words have two me-ean-ings. But you know, folks, sometimes words have one meaning and that's it. That's the way words work and why we have them. They were right about SS and Medicare being socialism, but wrong about it being communism. You can't, in a democracy, eliminate one thing because you think it's another thing. Take that word- democracy- and have republicans define it. They say democracy is "mob rule". You'd think that the party that was behind the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol would know that that was mob rule and be against it, but you'd be wrong. J6 was the essence of a mob. It was unruly, violent and unorganized even though it was organized by various maga groups. Kinda like Trump himself.

Any of us who have ever received a paycheck knows that we the people fund SS and Medicare. Even the dumbest guys I ever worked with who looked at their paystub and wondered why it was 'short' and wondered aloud, what he fuck FICA was, eventually understood once they got old enough to collect or to use Medicare. Let's just call it a savings account and medical insurance, generally for seniors. But let's not call it "socialist communism" and equally wrong, "an entitlement", while spitting on the floor like republicans do. Sure, it's socialism but that's not a bad thing. Your police, fire, libraries, roads, etc. and etc. are all socialism too. You not only need all those things, but you also want them too. 

The trick for republicans has been to tell you over the last several decades that you don't need nor want those things. What you can't do yourself, you can have done for you by enterprising American entrepreneur businessmen. Fred's Fire Service. Paul's Police Force. Ted's Toll Road to The Other Side of Town. Ed Cetera's Ect. Inc. They want to privatize every fucking thing the government does for you (paid for by your taxes) and make it a business. So, you'll just never have to pay taxes again, right? Instead you can pick and choose which services you want to buy, right? 

Weeeeelll, no. Republicans are not out to end taxes. It's like the late, great Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley said about Chicago police during the '68 Democratic Convention, "The policeman are not there to create disorder, the policeman are there to PRESERVE disorder".  That gentleman had a way with words that could really hit you where you live. And he said those words while being a democrat!

Republicans might tell you they aren't here to create disorder either, or to preserve it. They are here to perfect disorder. "Pervert disorder" might be a better way to put it.