The anti-Wall resolution is probably going to fail due to a veto. While Dems would like it to pass, the real point of it is to force Republican members to take a stand on an issue that 63% of independent voters oppose. And then we get to run ads like "Senator McConnell voted for Trump's plan to seize millions of acres of land from ordinary Americans with eminent domain. And then he wrested billions in funding from the military to build a boondoggle on the border. $Guy is a Democrat who believes in property rights, and in fully funding the military to keep us safe."
Admittedly, the 2016 party realignment is weirder than I thought it would be. I never thought liberals would end up with the law-and-order and military-industrial complex portfolios.
I was looking up "arrogance" for the other thread and found this. It certainly applied more in the Belle Epoque than it does now, but sometime it's useful to take a step back and ask if your basic values are wrong. I have too many family members who were in the military to believe her words wholeheartedly, but it does make me think.
Admittedly, the 2016 party realignment is weirder than I thought it would be. I never thought liberals would end up with the law-and-order and military-industrial complex portfolios.
Emma Goldman Wrote:Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Let me illustrate. Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.
I was looking up "arrogance" for the other thread and found this. It certainly applied more in the Belle Epoque than it does now, but sometime it's useful to take a step back and ask if your basic values are wrong. I have too many family members who were in the military to believe her words wholeheartedly, but it does make me think.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto