Here’s my challenge to Republicans across the country: You want me to believe you’re really opposed to “socialism”? Get out tomorrow on the stump and declare that you’re immediately ending Social Security and Medicare. No cutting checks, no “refunds,” no nothing. Government grants? Ended. Federal scholarships? Finished. Federally-backed insurance (home/fire/flood/etc)? Gone. Federally-funded research/grants? Finito.

Then, when your constituents raise a stink, look’em in the eyes and be every bit as heartless as you like to play-act in front of the cameras. Tell’em that if they don’t have the means to get through retirement then that’s their fault.

Can’t get a project done without federal grants? Then it’s not worth doing.

Kids can’t survive without federal scholarships/grants? Hand them a McDonald’s application and tell them about how you worked you way up through college back when tuition for a public college was free and private colleges cost four figures a year.

People can’t rebuild after a major disaster without federally-backed insurance? Then they need to move someplace “safer.”

And so forth. Be every bit the dick you want your constituents to believe you are to “those people,” then watch as your reelection chances sink faster than the Titanic.