We are being propagandized to be grateful if we are spared one more blow, in the context of a larger austerity deal that never should have been entertained in the first place. How will we be helped?
All the rhetoric is being set up to praise the President and be satisfied with our lot if he merely *refrains* from taking this or that additional bludgeon to the poor and middle classes.
This is how far we have been suckered to the right. We drown in a sea of platitudes about austerity, validation of Republican framing and lies, from neoDemocrats, as though we should be grateful and consider it a great victory if we can just elicit from our Democratic President a promise not to ATTACK us in one way or another. We are suckered to welcome and celebrate a new round of austerity, as long as we get a promise that *certain* attacks on the poor and elderly may not be included.
We are urged to be grateful for the withholding of a specific blow, but convinced that the larger beating is inevitable.
What we are owed is a complete change in rhetoric and in direction. We are owed passionate, public acknowledgement of the truth about how we have been looted and robbed and impoverished for 30 years, with all of our wealth going to a few greedy pigs at the top. We are owed a sweeping, passionate, and sustained correction of the economic LIES that we have been hearing for 30 years. And we are owed a sustained, serious campaign of action to REVERSE the structural changes of the past 30 years and the damage that has been perpetrated on millions of Americans.
How will we be helped?
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