“You can’t call yourself a Democrat and support Social Security benefit cuts. The president is proposing to steal thousands of dollars from grandparents and veterans by cutting cost of living adjustments, and any congressional Democrat who votes for such a plan should be ready for a primary challenge. Social Security is the core of the progressive and Democratic legacy. The President has no mandate to cut these benefits, and progressives will do everything possible to stop him.”
— Stephanie Taylor, Progressive Change Campaign Committee co-founder
“Let’s be clear: President Obama, when it comes to cutting Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare benefits, over 200,000 progressive members of your own party don’t “have your back” and we are prepared to fight you every step of the way.”
— Jim Dean, Chair, Democracy for America
Progressives have been so riven by fear of the “others” that we are way too divided to win a primary. Until we wake up to the power of spoiling, we are lost in the wilderness. It is urgent that these neo-liberals lose the complacent conviction that we will come around in the general election. Given a choice between a Democrat who sells out the New Deal and a Republican of any stripe, we are going to have to vote the Republican in to clear the field. That portends a future choice and a democratic Democratic Party. The current path leads to obliteration by our “betters”.