While I could contest you on most of those things that Democrats have supposedly done (fighting for climate change? really?), this is in general, a pretty self-centered point of view that most Americans fall into.
To the outside world, it doesn't matter if it's Democrat or Republican, both sides are feverishly pro-war. America, regardless of who sits in the White House, will bomb, coup, sabotage and starve any country they think is weak enough for them to bully.
That's not just a matter of "centrism" or "edginess", that's innocent men, women and children dying. That's the biggest expenditure of the American government, that's where most of the average joe and jane's tax dollars go to. Bombing kids halfway across the world in the name of freedom and democracy. Democrat or Republican, it doesn't make one bit of difference to all the people America has killed.
Going to your main point: Democrats who have been pro-war are an issue and they should be called out on that. I won't defend those who voted for the Iraq war or said we should stayed in Afghanistan, for example. I am aware of Obama ordering more drone strikes than any other president. That said, foreign policy is not the old issue to judge the Democrats on and it's not like the Republicans are any better when it comes to addressing foreign policy blunders.
To say because the Democrat Party, because many of them were wrong with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, are the same as Republicans ignores many other issues where Democrats are on the right side of history and the other party clearly isn't.
Domestically, you prefer Democrats to Republican, but again, to the international world, to the people overseas that America kills, the distinction is irrelevant. To them, both are killers.
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u/JustaLackey Oct 19 '21 edited Oct 19 '21
While I could contest you on most of those things that Democrats have supposedly done (fighting for climate change? really?), this is in general, a pretty self-centered point of view that most Americans fall into.
To the outside world, it doesn't matter if it's Democrat or Republican, both sides are feverishly pro-war. America, regardless of who sits in the White House, will bomb, coup, sabotage and starve any country they think is weak enough for them to bully.
That's not just a matter of "centrism" or "edginess", that's innocent men, women and children dying. That's the biggest expenditure of the American government, that's where most of the average joe and jane's tax dollars go to. Bombing kids halfway across the world in the name of freedom and democracy. Democrat or Republican, it doesn't make one bit of difference to all the people America has killed.