That's the thing though. Republicans are openly advocating for cutting everyone's benefits. Perhaps they get away with it because while everyone gets hurt, some groups (unions, the poor) get hit a lot harder and faster. I might be wrong and I'm sorta drunk watching SC2 tournaments, gonna have to wait for Mandark to google do some research, but this seems like a newish, broad national strategy that goes well beyond just fucking minorities over with cuts, or fucking unions over, etc. That's not to say republicans had the working man's best interest in mind until 2010. They tried this type of assault in 2005 with SS privatization and got soundly rejected, after misreading the election results as a mandate to do stupid stuff. And once again they've read election results as a mandate/excuse to assault entitlements, but the deficit "crisis" has finally given them the chance they've been dreaming about for ages
it's like "yea I'm getting fucked in the ass, but YOU'RE getting DP'd haha"