Re: When It Comes To the Military, How Different Are The Democrats?
Why is this a surprise to some? Have people become conditioned
into believing Democrats are anti-military? Besides comparing military service records overwhelmingly in favor of Dems over Reps in Wash, one just needs to re-read their American History books to be re-conditioned. I do blame the Dems into being tricked and lied to by the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Runsfeld Executtive branch into invading Iraq.
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I think it has to do with the political spin that's out there and it's not a one sided deal either. How many times have democrats told the American public that the republicans were gonna end Social Security or some welfare program only to see the truth after the fact that gov't in fact grew in those areas. Radical types like me can only pray the dems are right at least once in a while but we're still waiting!
Maybe those raises weren't the same level as the democrats wanted but the fact remains that the amount of gov't truly did grow. The spin truly is all over the place.
To hear republicans, democrats are the spawn of hell who will usher in the communist nightmare. You know, for once I'd just like to see them try to invoke fullblown communism just to throw it back in their face when guys like you become the loudest critics of such efforts. I guess the democrat communist re-education process just never took in your case.
Most republicans are clueless that the current foreign policy is democrat party doctrine of the Wilson, FDR, Truman era and the antiwar stance is a Taft republican position so in truth republicans have become democrats and in foreign policy democrats a bit of Taft republicans. LOL! FREAKY FRIDAY Gov't STYLE!
As for the every day ordinary democrat out there in the real world (I'm not talking beltway or politicos) but honest to god oridnary people, I've yet to meet one who wants us to lose in Iraq or anywhere for that matter, who doesn't want to see Osama bin Laden dead and wrapped in pork skins or who shed tears because Saddam Hussein is dead. Maybe there are some out there but I've yet to meet them myself and although I'm not sure about the pork skins part (I know a bit extreme), I'd bet you'd agree with just about all of that as well. And I'd bet Tie would agree as well. Where the disagreements comes forth is the politics and cult of personalities we all get wrapped up in.
The ironic part of your and Tie's last 2 posts is that when you boil them down you both are very much on point IMO.
I read an op-ed earlier today from antiwar.com that concerned the warfare/welfare state and how one benefits the other. Regardless of where you stand on the war itself, I felt the author made an excellent point in how both become political leverage and in the end the gov't is expanded and we the taxpayer are saddled with further debt and potential tax increases to pay it off. I hope for the moment you can put aside partisan thinking, ignore possible partisan comments in the piece to just look beyond at the basic economics of it all.
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13018
Somebody must have fvked up the water. We're getting to damn civil around here. Making me sick!
