But I watch less and less.

Complain about infighting, but try best to cause more. Good job!

on Thom Hartmann and Ed Show

My take on this - the GOP will propose it and some DINOs will help push it through.

Many are in wheelchairs making travel to rallies a challenge. They have less money to donate to those who could help them the most. Many have to stay near their home turf/hospital for treatments, constant medical visits.
The beasts on the other side know this and figure they are easy pickin's. The repubs are basically lazy and will chop off money by the way of least resistance. Obviously the disabled is a choice group to do just that.
Sadly our news media never ventures into topics that are not in the top five. They are too lazy to dig into other topics such as this and don't want to make waves. After all their job comes first!

brought every illness on themselves by 1) being fat, 2) not exercising, 3) eating badly, you name it, and that they deserve to suffer their disability because they didn't take "personal responsibility" for every goddamned thing that happened to them. I have an SIL who thinks exactly this way.

Unless the disabled person worked for decades in a high income job, their SSDI is going to be less than $1500 a month. It can be as low as $800 per month. If they are single, they probably don't qualify for food stamps.

Just like with food stamps, the GOP thinks their are millions receiving disability who are not truly disabled, even though independent studies have shown that fraud is very low. One problem is that so many disabilities are invisible. If the person isn't blind, paralyzed or profoundly retarded, they assume that person MUST be able to find some kind of gainful employment.

This is going on in the UK as well. I saw an interview with a woman disabled with rheumatoid arthritis. She couldn't sit for long, or stand for long and she couldn't use her hands. She had received benifits for many years, but suddenly they said she should be able to find a job doing something.

That want to make the poor and disabled suffer more and more. They don't deserve wealth if they bash people for suffering for the sake of thier egos and sickening beliefs.