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In reply to the discussion: My beef with drones is not the boogey-man "on US soil", it's Obama's Bush-Lite Doctrine [View all]dotymed
(5,610 posts)or US soil at executive discretion is another step toward big brother. Many democrats do not question this during a democratic presidency. This will only escalate. What happens when a republican is in office? Will the (party first) democrats then try to end this process? IMO, both parties are owned by the same corporations (too big to prosecute!)
I spent most of my life as an FDR democrat. I still agree with the democratic platform much more than the republicans but unless we actively demand a complete paradigm shift, I fear that soon (the repubs are learning) there won't be much difference in the platforms. Platforms are just words and few candidates actually do what they say they will, after the campaign.
Off subject- since Obamacare, only a few politicians are still calling for medicare for all. The insurance companies (their benefactors) will not allow it even though all other first world countries have it and their citizens would not allow companies to profit from suffering and death due to medical conditions.
It seems that in America, money and power is all that matters.