2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Peacelover Hillary voted for an insane war that killed hundreds of thousands, but Bernie [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)It, and its lobbyists, the industries that profit from it, are destroying everything I loved about this nation: our freedoms (patriot act from MIC blowback terrorist attacks), our environment (MIC is what props up extraction industries, also U.S. military is single biggest source of man-made polution on the planet), we are hated around the world because we are interfering in the affairs of most every country, the drones and surveillance state and police militarization are all entwined in the whole MIC overreach, we have no money for social programs due to MIC spending, for me there is no overstating the issue, MIC must be reigned in, it's global corporatists using U.S. taxpayer money to provide cheap unregulated access to natural resources and exploitable labor pools anywhere on the planet, while our planet is literally being killed by climate change which is massively increased by this whole resource extraction strong-arm regime.
We have plenty of work to do here, there can be jobs, there will be money if it is not given to the MIC. Retraining, infrastructure, my preference is spending on a radical retooling of our energy and transportation systems to avert the worst effects of climate change while it is still possible, there is no time to waste, the tipping points are here now. I don't want to wait until we have all of this in place to defund the MIC, it needs to happen, now.
I know of no better candidate on these issues than Bernie, so there is that.