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In reply to the discussion: Majority of liberals support US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria [View all]DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)Amongst all groups, broken down in any of the ways available, the majority of respondents support the bombings, either "strongly" or "somewhat."
And some of the trends are really disturbing -- like, the more educated they had, the more likely poll respondents were to support the bombings. Wtf is THAT about?
We've gotten so used to this shit that we accept it as 'normal.'
Bombing other countries isn't normal. Sending our troops off to fight someone else's religious wars isn't normal. Flipping out over a handful of beheadings while ignoring the daily domestic deaths from malnutrition and poverty isn't normal. Bankrupting the treasury on perpetual war isn't normal. None of this is fucking 'normal.'
Like I said, breaks my heart. I have no solutions -- not to the middle east disasters, not to our government's continued involvement in them, not for any of it. I look at it all and despair of our species.