2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I thought winning the election would feel better than this. [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)That fact that so many Democrats are buying into it rather than calling it out for what it is, does not fill me with happiness and positivity as to which direction they want to go in.
Plain and simple: No grand bargain, and let all the tax cuts expire. Then January 3rd or whenever they come back, propose lower and middle class tax cuts. Frame them as The Obama Tax Cuts. Dare Republicans to vote against them. Nothing will happen for those days or weeks that will send the country into any degree of turmoil.
It's such a complete fucking political no brainer, that the fact that the Democrats aren't pointing this out at every term and the fact that they are still insisting that any Grand Bargain is needed, leads me to believe that many of them are just as eager to get these programs for the poor and elderly cut and keep the trough filled for the wealthy and the corporate to stuff their gaping maws at.
I'll wait and see. But if and when I'm not proven wrong, and if and when some "grand bargain" is cut that negatively impacts Social Security and Medicaire, and which extends the tax breaks for the wealthy, I fully expect all the delicate flowers on "our side" insisting we must do something to be trotting out every excuse in the book as to why the poor beleaguered democrats had no choice. And then, as now it will be pure and utter bullshit.
Elections have consequences, as the former idiot in chief said. They do. The people voted for the guy and the party who said they wanted to protect the programs that help the poor and middle class, and said they wanted to increase taxes on the wealthy. They can either listen or not. If they choose not to, they should be called out on it loudly.