This won't be a long diary. But I've been feeling a great deal of frustration, as many of us have, about that trajectory of the Democratic Party over the last 10 years, to the corporatist side. Economically, far too many Democrats use neoliberal framing to describe our present economic situation, and believe that neoliberal solutions will work. Mr. Obama is apparently among those Democrats. And apparently, so is my representative Steny Hoyer, who today said the basis for the debt reduction talks should be the failed Debt Commission's (non)report, which was never approved, and had far more conservatives than progressives on it.
I'm astounded that the Democratic Party is ignoring poll after poll that shows the public supports increasing taxes over cutting social programs, even Medicaid. I'm also astounded that they are allowing the narrative to be dictated by Republicans and the wealthy punditocracy in DC, when it is clear that holding strong as progressive Democrats is not only what I believe the right thing to do, it's also the smart political thing to do.
I'd been getting more and more PO-ed as the week went on, with trial balloons being floated to do $4T in cuts, not just $2.5T and to put Social Security and Medicare on the table at a time when business will not hire and spend ... not fundamentally because of too much debt, but rather because of too little demand. Yeah, let's take another $1.5T out of the 10-year budget to stimulate demand. The supply side'll take care of it. [/snark]
What I decided to do, and the response I got, below.