Paul Krugman nails it: Why we're on DEMOCRATIC Underground

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120. Sometimes corporatist control that SHUTS OUT compromise with "the left" NEEDS screaming at!

When they don't compromise with the left and only with the right and corporate interests!

They then are representing corporate interests and not the interests of the people and in my book in that case are NOT rational people to deal with. At least not rational in any sense of wanting to build an economy and country that works for all of us and not just the select few.

The tea party extreme issues that they yell about are mostly social issues, and not fundamental issues that govern society and the financial interests of everyone. That is why they are allowed to yell and get some power in congress, so that their people will go blindly along and sell out their own financial interest to the corporatists that control the Republicans so that they can keep the rightward shift going, and make it look like the Democrats are the "left" when they just work on a few of the social issues that Democrats want but completely IGNORE and make sound like they are "FAR LEFT" issues like single payer, decent minimum wage and taking down the wealth disparity for all, that the corporatists in both the media and the Third Way of the Democratic Party depict as "far left" screaming, when it is the majority of Americans that feel this way.

That is why they want to marginalize "the left" when they try to be heard on these issues. Because they know these populist issues resonate more than just with the Democratic Party, but with the nation as a whole, which was demonstrated in last election when Democrats were voted out in the same states where they put in place minimum wage in statewide propositions.

And people that call Nader and others that have tried to work hard for the rights of the people as "nitwits" ARE the problem with this party now, not those that are trying to get back the traditional values of the party. The *reality* is that more people are moving away from the Democratic Party when they feel that the nation is getting destroyed when both parties are negotiating away things like Social Security and other things that the party of the past has worked so hard to put in place.

And if you call Hillary "kicking ass on Republican" with her stance on this issue instead of COMPROMISING (or actually COMPLICIT) with Republicans like Orrin Hatch who push this corporatist serving program, then you have another thing coming!

Watch this to see how not only do Americans get screwed, but even Indians as shown in this news report also feel screwed by this 1% serving "indentured servant" labor program that only serves the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Silicon-Valleys-Body-Shop-Secret-280567322.html