Reply #3: We are headed to disaster if there is no change, and the gutlessness [View All]

[RichM]

of Democrats will be a decisive factor in ensuring that there is no change.

Just look at this message board -- it has been swarmed and completely taken over by militarist brownshirted nitwits who want to put someone straight from the military-industrial complex into the White House, calling him a "Democrat" and a "progressive."

If those know-nothings are "DUers," then the answer to one of your questions must be that DUers don't give a fig about the military-industrial complex at all.

Of course the problems predate GW Bushler. The US has been an aggressive predator nation since it was founded. Remember exterminating the Indians & stealing their land? Then the phony unjust war on Mexico to steal Calif, N Mexico & Texas? Then we had a brief pause in the imperialist land-grabs, to duke it out with the Southern slave-owners. After which, we started stealing land again in the Spanish-Am War. And it never stopped, after that.

This country is an imperialist monster that will bring the whole world down with it. Perhaps 15% of Democrats see US imperialism as a problem; the rest don't give a hoot.

What would it take to really make a difference? The ruling elite of the country will ALWAYS favor having a military-industrial complex, & having working-class kids go fight their wars. Waiting for them to "get nice" and voluntarily relinquish the advantages of the MIC would be a wait until Judgement Day. The only way it can be changed is if a party is built that represents working people against the oligarchs. It has to be a class war, because that is the nature of the phenomenon -- an exploitation of one class by another. As long as the US is controlled by the 2-party monopoly, they will never speak this language of class conflict, so the requisite consciousness will never be allowed to develop.

The Democrats are part of the problem -- a very major part. Their part is more insidious than that of the Republicans, who everyone realizes are the overt bad guys. The Democrats help to confuse matters by posturing as -- but not at all being -- the party that defends "the little guy." Their role of "false savior" keeps the oppressed classes confused and with NO real representation.