(#5889) Planning for the future in this current political climate when you are old is weird

      I am not real old but I will be 70 in a few months. With what is going on with trumps wanting to destroy our society as it is and has been for many decades is troubling to say at minimum. I also know that at my age, which has been a full life in many respects, I know that time is not on my side and realistically, at any moment, it may just suddenly end. Not that I have a premonition or foreknowledge of such an event but statistics tell me that I am not in the best position to discard normal eventuality. So as I try to equate a plan of action based upon what my options are I am conscience of all the uncertainty.
     I cannot look at how I am now and adjust my thinking to adapt to what I thought 50 years ago.  In fact given the turmoil the trumps are stirring I cannot even think like I did last year. Yet life as a human being is about taking what is now and making it into something. Which is what I must do. Our Social Security is being threatened not because we have done something wrong. But because others think that having a national insurance program like Social Security deviates from capitalistic values. Yet I don't see those same trumps attacking insurance companies as being anti capitalistic. For me the attack on Social Security is more about making life harder for the American working middle poor class. Why you may ask? I am still trying to figure that but obviously it has to do with eliminating worker demands for fair pay.
     Putting more people into the workforce who would otherwise retire seems to be the objective. With more demand for employment the ruling class will make pay less for those of us scrambling for work. Even we older people will need to work regardless of our physical and mental limitations. The trumps plan for turning our democracy into a tyranny is moving forward on all fronts. Which makes it hard for me in my attempt to plan for whatever my future will be. Yet I can see what is coming and will move to abate that as best I can. However, I know that I will likely be swept away like the many of us as the wave of trumpism is in full motion to annihilate we who would stand in his way.