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Are Democrats Bringing Us Back to the Hippie Days?
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Lol. Republicans being worse is simply your own confirmation bias at play. It's controlled opposition, Democrats and Republicans are on the same side. Against you. Same corporate donors, same agenda. Y'all put up the former board director of fucking Walmart up for President. Take your superiority complex over being "blue team" and shove it.
Absolutely false.
There are distinct differences between the parties and what they stand for.
You're admitting how fucked up your party is and trying to claim they should still be supported because the alternative isn't perfect.
Horse shit
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Absolutely false.
There are distinct differences between the parties and what they stand for.
Coke and Pepsi. One might be a little sweeter but it's the same shit, and both are still just as bad for you. There are no distinct differences. The rhetoric is different, the voting record is identical. House and Senate Democrats voted alongside Republicans to increase annual defense spending to almost a trillion dollars. Please remove your head from your rectum.
You're admitting how fucked up your party is and trying to claim they should still be supported because the alternative isn't perfect.
Horse shit
I don't have a party. Quit trying to paint me as the 'other.' I'm not a Republican just because I criticize your Democrats.
We were united in our fight against socialism when the sixties started. The Cold War was still alive and our experts realized we needed to react quickly to fend off the socialists in Vietnam. Then the liberal Democrats started their flower power protests against the war.
Are the Democrats trying to return to those days?
Poll Shows Democrats View Capitalism More Negatively Than Ever Before
https://www.redstate.com/kimberly_r...-cortez-poll-democrats-capitalism-negatively/
The mention of Vietnam is interesting, because it really underscores how wrong "our experts" were. The reason we were intervening in Vietnam wasn't because we had some immediate national interest in that small, impoverished country on the other side of the planet. Instead, it was because of an incorrect geopolitical model that had us thinking that if the communists took over Vietnam, it would set of a chain reaction that would result in one nation after another falling to communism, until eventually the communist block was so powerful that we could no longer successfully oppose them when they threatened something we really did care about, like Western Europe. Turns out, as you know, that was all wrong. Vietnam did fall to the Communists, and it didn't end up mattering to wider US interests. There was no cascade of dominoes. In fact, you could argue the fall of Vietnam helped to precipitate the fall of the Soviet Union, by emboldening them to get involved in a economically ruinous quagmire in Afghanistan. Within a decade of the fall of Vietnam, the USSR was teetering, looking to Glasnost and Perestroika to try to salvage their system. And meanwhile Vietnam's closer neighbor, China, was pushing hard towards capitalist reforms under Deng Xiaoping. Those Americans who died trying to prop up an unpopular dictatorship in South Vietnam died in vain, and tens of thousands more would have done so if we hadn't wisely withdrawn, as a result of a successful peace movement.
This is helpful to think about, because similar "reasoning" is happening among right-wing hardliners in the US today. Just as they foolishly framed the Vietnam conflict in slippery-slope terms (e.g., if we don't stop the Communists at Vietnam, there will be no stopping them from taking over the world), they treat every inroad of social policy the same way today (e.g., if we move towards European-style universal healthcare, we may as well hand our whole economy over to the Politburo). Their paranoia was wrong in the 1960s, and it's wrong today. Hopefully, as eventually happened with regard to Vietnam, saner minds will prevail.
Worse......it kind'a looks like the SOCIALLY LIBERAL NAZI PARTY in Germany during the 30s. They said the same thing.....its ok to rob someone of their rights (like free speech and assembly) if you don't agree with them....then its OK to use hate and violence against them. Socialism will be socialism....individual liberty and the rights of property simply do not nor can not work with any socialist agenda....just ask Hitler, Stalin, or Mussillini, etc.
None of which were Socialists, idiot