“If we pass Medicare we would wind up telling our children what it once was like in America when men were free,” Ronald Reagan 1961.
So we find that Department of the Interior is about to sell the branding of parks to corporations because Republicans don’t like funding them. Capitalism straight up.
When I was in school during the height of the cold war we were taught that “pluralism” was the right answer to politics, a little of that, a little of this, take the edge off of one and round out the other. NO MORE. One side. ONE SIDE has decided to go the way of pure capitalist ideology while the other has no intention of pure socialism of any sort. Nor has any other nation other than North Korea.
Republicans really do want to destroy Medicare and Social Security they just have to speak softly or lose the old vote. Which is about all the got anymore.