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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is and continues to be critical of President Obama [View all]woo me with science
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You can't dispute the record of relentless corporate predation, so you go for these predictable Third Way distortions. Let's take just *one* in that post you just made that is full of them...but we could take any of them, as anyone who follows the news can attest.
You protested, "Obama didn't cut Social Security"!
...and you said it as though you have now confirmed his dedication to the 99 percent. What brazenly dishonest nonsense, particularly since he continues to defend his own proposed cuts in his own pending budget.
Yet even beyond that, your pretending that all the *bargaining* with Social Security has done no harm to the 99 percent, has served no purpose to the predatory Third Way, is perhaps the most ludicrous and insulting aspect of your comment.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=345065
"It's always on the table, and nothing ever happens!"
What a reeking load of bullshit. The manipulative threat of cutting Social Social Security is precisely *the reason* that corporate Democrats have been able to inflict crushing austerity on Americans as effectively as they have. Without the threatened axe of Social Security cuts (which kept returning as the austerity kept escalating), they would never have been able to sell the vicious budget and social program cuts they HAVE inflicted on Americans...by justifying them as the lesser of two evils.
If you had told us a few years ago that the Barack Obama administration would be presiding over government spending that assaults the poor even more viciously than the RYAN plan, we would never have believed it. Yet that is exactly where we found ourselves, surrounded by corporate mouthpieces exhorting us to be grateful, "because he didn't cut Social Security."
The cuts are in his budget. They *will* happen when the Third Way is finished using the threat of them to justify and implement all these other, very real, assaults.
As usual, you run into the inevitable trap of Third Way messaging: disparaging liberal policies as "fringe" and unreasonable and pushed only by fringe candidates and woomongers.....while SIMULTANEOUSLY trying to reassure voters that President Obama really and truly secretly supports them in his heart.
War is Peace.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
2 + 2 = 5.
As bvar22 so perfectly stated, "Your bullshit doesn't fly here."