Watch this clip of Kasich speaking about Social Security at an interview in New Hampshire recently:
Got that? Kasich asks the audience if they even know what their benefit is going to be when they retire. Then he asks if people would be bothered by a smaller benefit in order to save the program. Did you see what he did here? By trying to show that people don’t even know what their SS benefits are, he asks this audience if they would take less of this unknown for the health of the program. The person who would be bothered by a lesser benefit is then told that “they’ll get over it”.
This is the stance of a politician who isn’t much interested in either Social Security or the folks who will need it, but of a politician who will be working at making sure that wealthier people will not be bothered by the need to make sure that this program still works for Americans. So while Kasich (widely discussed as the sensible one of the current conservative clown car) is out and about making the case for why Americans should vote for him, he is straight out telling these voters that he has no intention of representing their interests.