In my opinion, Democrats are falling into a deadly trap.

[girl gone mad]

37. Democrats need to just shut up about deficits.

People do not actually care about the deficit and the deficit is not a real problem. When Republicans talk about the deficit, they are merely using it as a scapegoat to blame for people's economic frustrations. This way they can avoid confronting the real problems in our economy - globalization, corporatization, financialization, bailouts, regulatory capture and deregulation. Oh, but wait... Democrats don't really want to talk about any of those things either, since they are every bit as supportive of the rentiers as the Republicans.

So I guess we're stuck hearing about an imaginary problem with an imaginary impact on our lives.