Well, fuck me. I thought I was on a DEMOCRATIC forum.

[woo me with science]

174. Nonsense. We have already been sold.

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We get austerity no matter what. Medicare and Social Security were used as hostages, by corporate Democrats, to give us austerity.

We get drilling no matter what. We get right-wing appointees no matter what. We get Holder continuing on.

We get assaults on public education. We get media consolidation.

We are always being propagandized that we have somehow won or been represented, if we are merely spared one more particular blow in a barrage of corporate assaults.

Let me repeat: All the rhetoric is being set up to praise a Democratic President if he merely *refrains* from taking this or that additional bludgeon to the poor and middle classes.

Nothing has happened yet to harm us? What a joke, and what a weak, pathetic argument if it attempts to suggest that we are actually being represented. What have we won? What we are owed is a complete change in rhetoric and in direction. We are owed passionate, public acknowledgement of the truth about how we have been looted and robbed and impoverished for 30 years, with all of our wealth going to a few greedy pigs at the top. We are owed a sweeping, passionate, and sustained correction of the economic lies that we have been hearing for 30 years. And we are owed 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.

Of course, that will not happen from the government we have now. We are mocked if we even suspect yet another assault, and, in the midst of a SEA of assaults, we are fed ridiculous propaganda that tells us the absence or withholding of any *particular* assault is proof enough, all by itself, that we are winning and have real allies in Washington.

None of that flies anymore. People will demand representation, until we receive representation.