FFS... the PURPOSE of ENTITLEMENT REFORM is to REDUCE benefits

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87. Thanks, but I have to disagree that corporate Democrats are wimps.

They are manipulative, is what they are. They work aggressively on behalf of those they represent, but they do not represent the 99 percent, even though they claim to. Our problem is not a pathological wimpiness in Democrats, but rather a systemic problem of corporate money and power driving electoral politics and policy in Washington, in both parties.

Our only real leverage is in our numbers. That's why we need to force them through public pressure to represent our interests rather than corporate interests. The corporatists in both parties work very hard to limit the scope of debate on any particular issue to the Republican evil corporate choice versus the Democratic "lesser-of-two-evils" corporate choice. Then they claim "victory" for enacting predatory policies that aren't quite as predatory as the Republican version was threatened to be. We were expected to CELEBRATE a vicious austerity plan last time, simply because it didn't also come with threatened cuts in Medicare and Social Security.

It's time to end the scam. We need to demand policies that actually HELP the 99 percent and REVERSE inequality, rather than settling for slightly less bludgeoning than the Republicans would have inflicted. We need to get the country demanding real solutions, expanding the debate, and proving that the corporate line we are constantly fed - that the corporate options are the only viable options - is a despicable lie.