"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Oh is that why Dwight D Eisenhower spent his entire departing speech talking about how the military-industrial complex is destined to take over the government and we should stop it?

Is that why our infrastructure crumbles, while we spend trillions invading a country most people couldn't even locate on a map?

[–]HopeThatHalps 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

So in your view, the military industrial complex is the one and only track that matters, nothing else. In your view, there are no other issues. Health care, NOPE! Immigration, NOPE! Tax rates, NOPE!

[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It's the most important thing because it gets an insane amount of funding, and kills millions of people. Everything else is small potatoes distractions by comparison. I don't want my tax dollars overwhelmingly going toward mass murder and imperialism. So yes, it matters the most.

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Some would say our presence around the world stablizes regions for our benefit as well as theirs. I'm sure there are shades of gray, but nevertheless, this is a single issue, and the two sides are only the same insofar as you have a little or no concern for all of those other issues.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Some would say our presence around the world stablizes regions for our benefit as well as theirs.

And many, many, many others would disagree. Especially the people in Iraq, Yemen, Iran, Syria, and most of central and south America.

But you're right, I'm sure those with huge unquestionable power over us are working for the great good of everyone and aren't just selfish power-seekers. You're probably right

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So there is no difference between Trump and Clinton because the people in the Middle East and South American are aggrieved by US intervention. I get it.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I never said there is no difference at all, I just said the difference is so minuscule that the significant policy matters wouldn't be affected. That's what the deep state is, that's why the military-industrial complex embedded itself within the government. That's why the US has been at war 210+ years of it's 240 years of existing. And why the war economy makes up almost 1/3 of the US economy.

War cannot stop or else the economy collapses. So they create reasons for war. And lots of people suffer as a result.