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<blockquote data-quote="Frankenstein Underworld" data-source="post: 443059" data-attributes="member: 35">If that&#039;s your takeaway, I don&#039;t know what to tell you.The Dems start wars and order the bombs to be dropped just like the Republicans, but apparently, they&#039;re only murderers in your eyes if they fire the weapons themselves.And while Trump never killed anybody in the middle of Time Square, his ICE agents killed people in Minneapolis.&nbsp; People were right to be angered over that, but what was interesting was the way the media handled that compared to the way they covered Obama killing 4 American civilians in Yemen.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t even hear about that until years later.&nbsp; One of the civilians was a suspected terrorist, and the other 3 were collateral damage (one of which was the 16-year-old son of the terrorist suspect).&nbsp; And yet MSNBC loves to say Obama&#039;s biggest scandal was &quot;wearing a tan suit.&quot;&nbsp; Not surprisingly, you have to look past the mainstream media if you want the truth about politicians other than the right.One of the reasons they hate Trump is that he doesn&#039;t know how to fake being a caring human being.&nbsp; They caused the same carnage around the world and economic hardship here at home, but they had the ability to play on our emotions and make us believe they cared about the plight of people in need.&nbsp; The problem is that it was all political theater.What isn&#039;t helpful are the neoliberals within the Democratic Party who focus on identity politics at the expense of economic issues and foreign policy.&nbsp; They&#039;re controlled by the billionaires just as much as the Republicans are, and since neither side wants to get money out of politics, I&#039;d love to hear the magical solution to cutting the billionaires&#039; strings.Whatever &quot;woke,&quot; &quot;communist,&quot; or &quot;socialist&quot; meant or didn&#039;t mean is irrelevant.&nbsp; Labels in general are never really helpful, especially when they&#039;ve become toxic and have a lot of preconceived notions tied to them.&nbsp; That&#039;s why, for the most part, we don&#039;t use &quot;left and right&quot; as much as we used to.&nbsp; It&#039;s much more beneficial to discuss ideas and get away from this groupthink mentality.&nbsp; Not everybody fits into a perfectly neat box.&nbsp; That&#039;s why I think it&#039;s ridiculous that we only have two mainstream political parties in the US.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frankenstein Underworld, post: 443059, member: 35"] If that's your takeaway, I don't know what to tell you. The Dems start wars and order the bombs to be dropped just like the Republicans, but apparently, they're only murderers in your eyes if they fire the weapons themselves. And while Trump never killed anybody in the middle of Time Square, his ICE agents killed people in Minneapolis. People were right to be angered over that, but what was interesting was the way the media handled that compared to the way they covered Obama killing 4 American civilians in Yemen. I didn't even hear about that until years later. One of the civilians was a suspected terrorist, and the other 3 were collateral damage (one of which was the 16-year-old son of the terrorist suspect). And yet MSNBC loves to say Obama's biggest scandal was "wearing a tan suit." Not surprisingly, you have to look past the mainstream media if you want the truth about politicians other than the right. One of the reasons they hate Trump is that he doesn't know how to fake being a caring human being. They caused the same carnage around the world and economic hardship here at home, but they had the ability to play on our emotions and make us believe they cared about the plight of people in need. The problem is that it was all political theater. What isn't helpful are the neoliberals within the Democratic Party who focus on identity politics at the expense of economic issues and foreign policy. They're controlled by the billionaires just as much as the Republicans are, and since neither side wants to get money out of politics, I'd love to hear the magical solution to cutting the billionaires' strings. Whatever "woke," "communist," or "socialist" meant or didn't mean is irrelevant. Labels in general are never really helpful, especially when they've become toxic and have a lot of preconceived notions tied to them. That's why, for the most part, we don't use "left and right" as much as we used to. It's much more beneficial to discuss ideas and get away from this groupthink mentality. Not everybody fits into a perfectly neat box. That's why I think it's ridiculous that we only have two mainstream political parties in the US. [/QUOTE]

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