2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy is bringing Democracy to other countries more important than...
Restoring Democracy in America?
There are a lot of important issues in this election but our nation's war budget should get more attention. We're destroying the world for profit.
Reduce the military budget as well as tax the 1% fairly. America needs to be about Americans. And, we need help. Life is not getting better and the crux of the matter is, it should be.
merrily
(45,251 posts)I've been wondering who is going to bring it to the U.S.
Meanwhile, how is democracy in Iraq been working out?
I love the smell of wars of choice in the morning.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)it no longer is.
Corporations run America. I weep in my morning tea.
YouDig
(2,280 posts)he got less votes. It's simple.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)That fact has nothing to do with any candidate no matter how much you try.
YouDig
(2,280 posts)Without caucuses, he'd be losing by more than he already is.
Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)all that regime change and nothing to show for it
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Skwmom
(12,685 posts)"Democracy" is a cover story for imperialism and endless war for profit.
raccoon
(31,135 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)"bringing democracy to other countries" is code for empire capitalism.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)protection of market share is expansion's anxious partner.
The small scale version of the national capitalist model isn't as well represented by the mom and pop store as it is by racketeering mobsters carving out and enforcing their boundaries for their piece of the action and calling it protection/insurance.
Every politician serving the empire pretends there is something more noble involved than pursuing an insatiable appetite.
There really isn't.
pampango
(24,692 posts)FDR replied, "Well Harry. They are going to have to give a damn about people in Java from now on."