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Any semblance of rationality during the past dozen years in the United States regarding what the Republican and Democratic parties really stand for is hard to find, other than money, of course.<\/p>\n
Political science courses used to teach that Republicans are conservative, oppose labor unionization and decent wages, always ready to war on somebody in the interest of \u201cnational security\u201d. While they like to kill foreigners in their wars, especially people of color, they are appalled at the notion that American fetuses should be stopped from growing into human beings.<\/p>\n
Democrats were said to be liberal, maybe even \u201cprogressive\u201d, willing to protect workers on the job, allowing unions, using dialogue in diplomacy instead of warring \u2014 without good cause, of course. Just ask Bernie Sanders. He voted against the Iraq war, albeit voted for financing it once it began. All the other wars were OK for that so-called \u201csocialist\u201d. In comes the \u201cpeace president\u201d. Barak Obama took over Republican Bush\u2019s two wars \u2014 Afghanistan and Iraq \u2014 and extended them, and even added five more to his cowboy gun belt: bombing Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan. Every Tuesday he sat beside his CIA Director John Brennan, and pushed buttons on who should be droned that day. Never mind the fact that none of these wars were actually declared as such. They were \u201chumanitarian actions\u201d to purportedly help someone get human rights. That they were all unconstitutional did not faze Obama, the supposed lawyer specialist in the constitution.<\/p>\n
Now, some political scientists could make the case that, still and all, Democrats are adherents of bourgeois democracy (some might dare say social democracy). Some contend that Trump has shown himself to be a neo-fascist with strong racist attitudes. Such pundits might find it difficult to explain that while Trump has been in office, the Democrats want to make war against Russia while he wants to do capitalist business with them. OK, both Trump and Democrat opponents want to encircle and threaten war with China, so they do have something in common.<\/p>\n
When Assange\/Wikileaks was revealing war crimes during the Obama regime, the president\u2019s secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, wanted to drone Assange for revealing her communication to rig the Democratic presidential primary in her favor. So, she sat on Brennan\u2019s lap and they did Russiagate. Trump declared, \u201cI love Wikileaks\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Democratic National Committee, backed up by war addicts in the Pentagon and CIA and their sensationalist-seeking friends in the corporate fake news media world, forced Trump to sound tough for war too. He did some droning, and bombing here and there while he also sought to withdraw the U.S. from several of the Bush-Obama wars.<\/p>\n
Lame-duck presidents usually pardon some prisoners, especially those they feel close to, or who have done them favors. Michael Flynn for instance. Trump\u2019s three-week national security advisor talked with Russians. Democrats consider that to be treason. Maybe Democrats don\u2019t know that the United States is not at war against Russia, not yet anyway. Well, they reply, Flynn must have lied to the FBI. Who wouldn\u2019t lie to cops? Name me a politician, especially when they get to be secretary of state, directors of intelligence service and presidents, who don\u2019t lie. Trump\u2019s lies are simply more apparent than Obama\u2019s Harvard voice reveals.<\/p>\n
Remember Mike Pompeo chuckling with his audience at the Texas A&M University, on April 15, 2019: \u201cWhen I was a cadet [West Point] our motto was: You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do. [When] I was the CIA director, we lied, we cheated, we stole. It was like we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n