Future obligations are in the mega-trillions. Nobody wants to talk about it.
Remember a few decades ago all the talk about third rail of politics. Back then it meant don't venture to cut liabilities, protect senior citizens, etc.
Now, of course, senior citizen issues are off the table (left doesn't need their votes anymore), and they figure their new base is too dumb to think ahead.
>>Now, of course, senior citizen issues are off the table (left doesn’t need their votes anymore), and they figure their new base is too dumb to think ahead.<<
Given the reaction to bernie, fauxagauntus, occasional-cortes, the brother-humper and the whore I would say “they” are completely correct.