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In reply to the discussion: The real question that the Ron Paul candidacy poses for Democrats [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Screw Ron Paul. This is about the question that the Ron Paul candidacy raises for the Democrats.
He's perceived as anti-empire and for ending the drug war, and you know what? Liar or not, misinterpreted or not, his rhetoric promises a lot more in these areas than Obama's ever did, even before he took office and started escalating wars and signing laws to authorize permanent detention. Why is that? Why aren't the Democrats the party of ending empire and drug war? Why is the Obama administration in support of continuing to devote 50 percent of discretionary spending to the military, and raiding medical pot dispensaries?
(Anyway, in your posts here in the past, you've established yourself as a supporter of the US maintaining a planetary death star that allows it to intervene anywhere at any time, and as someone who believes that this is necessary so that we can commit acts of humanitarian imperialism with our bombs of freedom. I'm guessing, long as it's a Democrat doing it. Are you hyped for Syria? Do you think we can take Iran? Don't you just wish they'd go for Cuba, or Venezuela?)