The Grand Bargain is coming! The Grand Bargain is coming!

[woo me with science]

2. What a reeking, steaming pile of bullshit.

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The Grand Bargain was no victory for liberals. The Grand Bargain was a shock doctrine scam designed to force the 99 percent into accepting austerity when austerity would never have been accepted by the country had it been offered as an option by representatives who truly meant to represent us. How dare you claim that using Medicare and Social Security as hostages to get an austerity deal was a victory for liberals.

I'll tell you what the Grand Bargain gave us. The Grand Bargain gave us validation of right-wing lies and talking points about what is wrong with our economy and what needs to be done to fix it. It gave us Democratic enabling of the right-wing narrative and commitments for trillions in cuts to the budget when our own eyes, the experience of Europe, and hundreds of economists have shown us that austerity is a cruel, destructive scam for profit, a destroyer of economies and murderer of human beings. It gave us Third Way garbage rhetoric about "shared sacrifice," and it completely obscured the fact that the 99 percent have been deliberately looted and impoverished through policy for the past 30 years, escalating in the past 15.

Dems had better damned well try harder. They had better try harder to correct the larger narrative and to represent the people who gave them this election victory. We are being fed garbage propaganda trying to tell us that we will have won and should be grateful if Dems merely refrain from attacking us one more time in some particular area like Social Security or taxes. But we have already lost the big game, because this entire reeking deal will keep the Republican narrative and the march to austerity alive, along with 99.999 percent of the corporate-restructured status quo that is destroying millions of American lives as we speak.

Dems owe us much, much more than a promise not to assault us again in some isolated, particular way. We are owed a new vision, a sweeping, passionate, and sustained correction of the LIES that we have been hearing for 30 years, and a sustained, serious campaign of action to REVERSE the structural changes of the past 30 years and the damage that has been perpetrated on millions of Americans.