Everyone OK with this?

[LiberalLovinLug]

31. I get what you are saying

RW media, including the corporate owned MSM, has so brainwashed the citizenry, over decades, that they have tarnished the word forever.

But maybe...maybe if only it could be explained differently. That the armed forces tax money is spend in a very socialistic way. And that benefits the taxpayer. That every military base, does not have to find a manufacturer for new uniforms for instance. There is a centralized system where new uniforms are ordered for multiple bases, across the country by a manufacturing company bidding on prices for a larger bulk order. The same is true of course on a larger scale for ordering, say, tanks and planes for the whole US armed forces. That by pooling money together for a common goal, it ends up cheaper for everyone. That surely the medical health rights of the citizens of a country is just as much a right as military security. And why not pay for it in the most cost efficient way possible?

And that this form of funding is only applicable to areas that benefit the public at large. Like public schooling. Roads and bridges. Police and fire fighting. And of course the military. That capitalism would still be alive and well in every other sector.

I don't know, I just think, like gay marriage, or pot legalization has shown us, there can be a dramatic shift, a zeitgeist if you will at times in history. Personally I was absolutely shocked, in a pleasant way, that the Bernie Sanders campaign was not decimated as predicted even in here by some, by the independent voters and small r Republicans but instead did better with them than the "it will never happen" Hillary campaign.