Reply #14: Let's get real here

[eridani]

Us lefty fair trade and anti-imperialist people really do have policy allies on the right. They are coming from xenophobia, and we are coming from human solidarity (Solidarity fore-e-e-ver, solidarity forever, etc.), but if the same policy comes up in their crosshairs that appears in ours, we have to swallow hard and become allies of convenience. We can call out "towelhead" rhetoric when we hear it, though.

Let's not forget that it wasn't only Mark Twain and similar people who opposed the conquest of the Phillipines a century ago. So did the unionbusting Andrew Carnegie, who offered to buy the country for $10 million and set it free. Small government conservatives have always known that an imperial government is of necessity a big government.