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In reply to the discussion: Leftist Values [View all]H2O Man
(73,536 posts)And you bring up an essential point: our foreign policy is our domestic policy. It hasn't always been this way, and it is unfortunately becoming extreme at this time. It goes beyond the question the nation faced during the Vietnam era -- did we want guns or butter? -- and now involves the institutionalization of spying on citizens, clamping down on Amendment 1, and obviously the militarization of municipal police forces.
We have citizens afraid to be in public without carrying weapons; punks like that George Zimmerman, pretending he was law enforcement and murdering a kid; and an increase in police assaulting, even executing, people in our streets. And for what? No good comes from it. Thus, we consider the "why?" Because we get the constant diet of anxiety, fear, and paranoia.
Growing segments of our population are "colonized," for all intents and purposes. They are offered amusing, glittery trade items, in return for their being first class citizens The percentage of black Americans who are either incarcerated, or on probation or parole is staggering.