(March 15, 2019 at 7:05 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(March 15, 2019 at 6:41 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Um no, their policy has been to fund the military industrial complex.
I should have been clearer.
They will find lots of excuses to fund the military industrial complex. One of the most effective of recent years has been Islamophobia.
Talking about individual shooters in isolation makes no sense, when governments do the same on larger scales, and the media think it's great.
Quote:Unfortunately war is profitable, but America is not the only nation who invests in the global weapons market. Russia and China and the Saudis and Iran all invest in the global weapons industry.
Maybe humanity needs to blame humanity?
Blaming humanity is right, but not if it takes the heat off our own government, media, etc.
The USA far outdoes other countries in institutional violence.
Instead of blaming democrats as being equal in in this, maybe look at it as a fight between good and greed where the cons hold the sane hostage to the point they are forced to play the game.
So what are our options, live under China or Russia or North Korea, because they are far more likely to fund Iran than we would.
I am NOT giving our American conservatives a pass. I think far too much of old white money is still stuck on beating Hitler. But to claim every politician of any party wants our enemies to have power, or that everyone wants America to be colonialists is bullshit.
Conservatism promotes violence, not pluralism. Iran, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and North Korea, are hardly bastions of western pluralism.