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In reply to the discussion: Melissa Harris Perry Just Said: "It's Reasonable To Raise the Retirement Age" [View all]kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)Lot's of people have been living in Dreamyland with President Dreamboat. They all need to snap out of it today, this moment. MHP is getting her marching orders straight from the WH spin machine. When you hear her cooing about the reasonableness of cutting the safety net, you can no longer have any doubts about the machine being in motion or where it wants to go. Lots of you have been wrong and you have a lot of making up to do, and not much time to do it.
If you can FINALLY let go of the absolutely baseless identification with this Republican in a Donkeysuit, and motivate your asses down to Washington DC to put the fear into your Congressional Reps and Senators, you MIGHT just have a chance at stopping this epic screwjob. MAYBE. You've wasted a lot of time and initiative, lolling around in dreamland spinning fantasies about the Great Obama and how he's on your side. He's on HIS side. He's never been anywhere else. He and his lovely family have no intention of sharing your fate. He wants to be remembered as a figure that "transcended" party and began the breakdown of party lines in this country. The only way he can do that is to secure the breakdown of a previously non-negotiable position of the Democratic Party: the sanctity of the social safety net programs. This will usher in a new era of bipartisan consensus in this country and UTTER FUCKING MISERY for the vast majority of its people.
Let me warn you one more time: ONCE these programs go onto the table for cuts THEY WILL NEVER COME OFF THE TABLE. Every four or eight years or so, the question won't be should we regard Social Security and Medicare as untouchable, inviolable parts of the social contract, but rather BY HOW MUCH SHOULD WE CUT THEM?
You lot are deciding the shape of that future RIGHT NOW. The only way this disaster could ever go forward is if a Democratic President like Obama initiates it. And the only way he could succeed at this historic grand betrayal is if you, his loyal base of supporters ALLOW HIM TO DO IT.
So far, you have been the perfect Good Germans enabling him to screw you over at will.