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In reply to the discussion: 47 members of Congressional Progressive Caucus won't promise not to cut Social Security and Medicare [View all]PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)We rail against "no compromise" Conservatives, and think it is absolutely ridiculous when the far-right mounts a primary challenge against a member who is at least willing to CONSIDER compromising on an issue like taxes (an opinion that is just as strongly held on the GOP side as SS is on our side), but we are witnessing the same thing here on our side.
Something that DRASTICALLY helped our party in 2012 was the mindset that our party was the one who was willing to "compromise" and "make the tough decisions" for the "overall good of the country"...as much as we might not like it. And if it wasn't for that belief held among voters in 2012 about the OVERALL Democratic Party, we very well could have been here today railing against President Romney's plan to privatize Social Security, something that would be much worse than anything Chained CPI would do (which is something that will not go through anyway).