Not so sure about that. Maybe some don’t, but most do and they just don’t care.
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He is being more careful – he knows that young white people are less likely to define their own identity based on the color of their skin.
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Thank you brooklyndweller and thank you daughter of leftcoaster for volunteering. I know it’s a big world and all the folks out there who had Peace Corps help consider us the land of milk & honey, but we need help here too and most sometimes the government is not up to the task.
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Then expanding its “Big Tent” to include the Tea Party, Freedom Caucus, and every other angry, disaffected minority group to cobble together a paper majority it can neither control nor abandon. Self-imposed political dumb fuckery.
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I am ecstatic with the discussions here dealing with various programs.
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Definitely.
They have only themselves to blame. They could have stopped Trump but they decided to get on the Crazy Train and ride and they are close to their destination now.
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Very worried about a knock on the door in the middle of the night.
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The end of your post Rocked the House…
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Also balconies, umbrellas and tea.
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After they took out Cummings this week to try to derail the impeachment inquiry, I don’t put anything past them.
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warmer…
There used to be a republican argument for somewhat regulation using market forces rather than detailed action rules, for taxes that spared kinds of economic activity that were thought particularly helpful and so forth. But those kinds of people are called moderate democrats now, and the republicans are left with lethal buffoonery (I was brought up as a republican, and when my parents discussed policy it was things like encouraging retirement savings or taxes designed to reduce inflation. Those were the simple days…)
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not so “ironic” when their leaders won’t disabuse them
My Dad (and Mom) both voted for Ike.
Twice
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Prior to 1940 there was no peacetime conscription. Back then conscription was only imposed at the beginning of a declared war.
Nobody’s arguing that we didn’t have a Republic prior to 1940. However, I believe the essence of your premise is correct: that when we make it possible for people of means and privilege to avoid the reality of war and shift the responsibility to the underprivileged we enable a casual indifference to the harsh realities of war and its consequences.
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Hard to be party the rich if you can’t get the rubes to elect you
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Yes not only that, we are creating a permanent military underclass which is in affect an imperial army. We’re an empire.
I get what you’re saying and you’re right but prior to WWII, we had no military-industrial complex either. It’s a more or less natural progression really.
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The irony is he’s complaining about a situation he enabled.
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Completely complicit fought 45 with less vigor than Philippe Pétain fought the reich
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I had to endure a snot-nosed future NBA Draft Pick (he wasn’t too tall for Military Service) drone on and on about “respecting their service” when he and his college team played an exhibition for Service members.
Then I recalled the above-average political interests (race, poverty, the war) of the Nam-liable Boomers of the 1960s.
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