And there it is: the GOP shows up, and we don't

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79. I'm sorry, but that's just silly.

It's silly to pretend that corporate Democrats are moving us incrementally leftward AT ALL.

We are not moving leftward. We are moving rightward into corporate slavery. The gap between rich and poor is increasing, not decreasing. The rich are getting richer, and more and more of us are being driven into poverty. The middle class has been devastated. Public schools are being closed. Paved roads are becoming gravel roads. No, we are not moving leftward. All of the recovery, ALL OF IT, has gone to the wealthy few. It was not a recovery. It was a deliberate restructuring upward of the wealth in this country, and the pattern is only escalating. And it is escalating because of POLICY.

It is an outright lie that corporate Democrats are moving us leftward. Exactly the opposite is true. And the insulting cherry on top in the corporate talking points is this outrageous implication, which you just repeated here, that what people are demanding is somehow extreme...that we are demanding "the perfect."

That's ABSURD.

All we need are genuine, sincere Democrats in the old tradition, who will simply stand for traditional Democratic goals and values, so that we move leftward instead of continuing this march deeper into corporate slavery:

Defending Social Security and Medicare instead of using them as bargaining chips.

Pushing economic policy that actually works, rather than corporate scams like austerity that impoverish ordinary people, enrich the one percent, and starve and damage economies.

Standing with working citizens instead of predatory corporations and banks trying to deregulate themselves.

And fighting for simple Democratic principles, like that no one in this outrageously wealthy country should have to fear homelessness or destitution merely from being sick or elderly or wanting an education or having only one breadwinner in the house.

Non-corporate-driven Democrats don't negotiate and fast-track super-secret trade deals that will impoverish millions and elevate corporate power over national sovereignty. Non-corporate-driven Democrats don't vote bipartisanly to gut financial regulations on big banks that have already destroyed the middle class in this country. Non-corporate-driven Democrats don't give soaring speeches about the merits of austerity and recommend cuts in Social Security and Medicare when child poverty in this nation rivals that of ROMANIA and one out of five seniors is hungry.

We have a cancer in our politics. We have a deadly malignancy of corporate money driving and corrupting policy direction in both parties. The corporate Republican Party has long been corrupted in this way, and they have tried to loot the country for a long time. The only reason the looting is succeeding now is that corporatists have infiltrated the Democratic Party, too, and Democrats have abandoned their traditional role of standing BETWEEN the nation and these policies.

The demands of the 99 percent are not extreme, but neither corporate party seems interested in them...except during election seasons, when they invariably dust off the old talking points and pretend they do.



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