Re:War Is a Racket (1935)
by FrustratedMonky on Thursday May 25, 2023 @04:45PM
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Sometimes Democrats get backed into a corner. Like with Korea, Vietnam. No matter what they do, Republicans call the Democrats communists/evil/Satan. So when there is a communist country in the mix, then they better damn well go to war, or it proves they are stooges of those same communist countries. Because Democrats can't appear weak on communists, they might fight them harder than a Republican would, (see recent history where Republicans are backing Russia, which is like bizzaro world).
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So they don’t actually have any principles?
Re:War Is a Racket (1935)
by FrustratedMonky on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:37PM
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Why the down votes? Republicans love war, sometimes Democrats go along with it.
It's called compromise. You mean, why do Democrats sometimes bend their principles in the face of gun toting Republican's calling for a coup? I don't know, to thread the needle to keep the peace. When half the country is ready to re-enact the Civil War, what is to be done? It isn't like Lincoln didn't compromise when needed.
Re:War Is a Racket (1935)
by nonethewiser on Thursday May 25, 2023 @04:50PM
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What real-world circumstance does this theory explain?
Re:War Is a Racket (1935)
by FrustratedMonky on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:47PM
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Korea, Vietnam. If Communist China wasn't involved, we probably wouldn't be either. It was a policy of containment. And yes, Democrats went along with it. What could they do, say "no we're siding with China"? They would be voted out.
That's really more of a post 60s-ish thing. You can't really extend it back to Korea or before.
From ~FDR-LBJ, the democratic party was pretty pro-war (so was the average american, really, so I guess that's fair for a party called democratic), but that really starts to flip in the late 60s/early 70s.