I'm disgusted by Democratic disloyalty doing the Koch Brother's job for them

[George Osborne]

29. A random thought from a Democrat in bed with a cold

Hi,
I have upon occasion visited this site trying to figure out how the political party of my birth has morphed into something that is almost unrecognizable today.

The party seems more interested in getting elected than providing and supporting an agenda that returns to the premise of a government of, by and for the people instead of military expansion into foreign lands and the deaths that it leaves in its wake.

Did you know that the US military is one of the worlds largest users of Oil, which is separate from the energy use by the USA as a country. So it seems the US is fighting wars to secure the oil to fight war for more oil.

While I was born in the USA in 1945, due to my fathers work was educated in England with occasional detoured to America, New Zealand, Switzerland and Italy so my perspectives are perhaps a little more global than most.

One of my major memories was when we moved California and attended Santa Monica High school for a semester. In a history class the teacher was lecturing on how the USA saved Europe during WWII when I raised my hand and said something to the effect that Russia actually destroyed the German war machine after Hitler chose not to listen to his top military staff that Napoleon lost his army attacking Russia in the Winter.

Here I'll quote Wikipedia, I wish we had computers back then, well there were computers but they were bigger that a train;

''The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history.

They were characterized by unprecedented ferocity, wholesale destruction, mass deportations, and immense loss of life variously due to combat, starvation, exposure, disease, and massacres. The Eastern Front, as the site of nearly all extermination camps, death marches, ghettos, and the majority of pogroms, was central to the Holocaust. Of the estimated 70 million deaths attributed to World War II, over 30 million, many of them civilian, occurred on the Eastern Front.

The Eastern Front was decisive in determining the outcome of World War II, eventually serving as the main reason for Germany's defeat. It resulted in the destruction of the Third Reich, the partition of Germany for nearly half a century and the rise of the Soviet Union as a military and industrial superpower.''

And when I mentioned at another time that the destruction of the native populations of the Americas and Australia is considered ''genocide'', something we were taught in world history class in all my other schools I was sent to the principals office. I went home instead and insisted I return to England to finish out my education, which I did.

As a life long Democrat I am appalled that Americans have so little knowledge of history and the mistakes made along the way, that we are now repeating them. And one is how societies, like Rome go from chaos to a Republic, then democracy, then dictatorship and back to chaos. Dictators are not necessarily a Ceasear but can also be a dictatorship of the corporations(fascism) or the power of the Koch brothers to buy politicians.

The republic died shortly after it began, democracy lasted longer but by the later part of the 1800's, with its global outreach the USA actually became an Empire.

Today the Republicans are totally lost in the fog of self-serving ignorance, so the only alternative is for Democrats to learn from history and stop supporting the ever rightward swing of the status quo and start a new movement to take back the country for the people, though history has shown is nearly impossible. Progressively regressive?

None the less, we still need to be trying to change instead of bickering back and forth on whom is the best of the worst, because that is the vary why the USA is at this stage of its history today.

I doubt that I'll post much due to the rancor here but I have a cold and in bed for a few days and thought I'd join and say my peace in hopes the Democratic party will get gelled and move forward to a better century that the Republicans have to offer.

Sorry if this was rambling, I have a temperature and not up to par but still able to hope for a better future for my grandchildren and great grandchildren.