Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963... "These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference... I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years".
Social Security has been weaponized by the Left for decades; every election cycle they bring out "The Republicans are going to cut Social Security..." (which they never do) but it keeps those dependent on it in fear, so they vote Democrat,