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In reply to the discussion: WTF is wrong with Democrats that want to cut Social Security and/or Medicare? [View all]Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)"Some will say I'm a broken record, that I've said this before. Guilty as charged. But as long as the Third Way keeps bringing it up, I will too. There must be a line beyond which we'll not retreat, and for me, this is it. Let's hold our ground here, let's not keep letting our politicians move us further and further right. It must stop."
And while we're at it, it would be great if the not-really liberal media quits spewing false equivalences between both sides, and no longer fears the "liberal media" label. It drives me insane to hear somebody claim that BOTH Republicans and Democrats have moved away from the "center", when it's mainly the Republicans. If Democrats have really moved far to the left, why haven't they tried to do things like end the Drug War, advocate single-payer health care, or advocate returning to Eisenhower taxes for millionaires? And I might be wrong, but I find it sickening that they give even a sense of legitimacy to the failed policies from the right-wing. They know that trickle-down doesn't work. They know that the government intruding in people's sex-lives is perverse and immoral. They know that the U.S. remains the only industrialized nation without single-payer, and countless people here remain uninsured while Republicans whine about some mandate that they once supported. It's time for the media to call BS as it is.