Why should we vote for anyone in the primaries if they refuse to shout about this great injustice?

[dreamnightwind]

98. Your logic, and worldview, are terrible

So you differentiate yourself from a Republican because you don''t mind spending so much of our tax money on the military? I know you won't agree with my framing there but that's more or less the point you made. That aside, I'm genuinely curious how else you differentiate yourself from Republicans.

You think the world is peaceful where our military is and a mess where it isn't? That's insane.

Why do you think there is currently so much instability in the Middle East? Are you even aware of our role in that? Have you read the PNAC document? Any idea of our contributions to destabilizing Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, to name a few? Or our role in supporting cruel dictatorships (until we tire of them, or them of us, at which point we get to destabilize again) in countries with resources the corporations want access to?

You made one good point, which was that destabilization also can be an asset to the extraction industries. It depends, of course, on who is at the helm and what the multinational's relationship with that person is, whether destabilization is seen as useful or not.

Any yes, the massive taxpayer liability for the MIC is the main reason we can't seem to afford to support our citizens as well as countries like Norway, Denmark, Sweden, or most any other first-world type nation, even though we have way more resources and wealth than those nations.

I'm still curious why you consider yourself a Democrat. I believe in a big tent to a certain extent, but views like what you expressly support have no place in this party's tent, unless the tent also includes millions of Republicans, in which case we truly have but one party representing the interests of the monied elites.