Sunday, September 21, 2014

Joe Conason — Americans' Faulty Memory: Polls Show Majority Like GOP's Discredited War Policies

If the latest polls are accurate, most voters believe that Republican politicians deserve greater trust on matters of national security. At a moment when Americans feel threatened by rising terrorist movements and authoritarian regimes, that finding is politically salient -- and proves that amnesia is the most durable affliction of our democracy.
Stumbling toward war in Dumbfuckistan.

AlterNet
Americans' Faulty Memory: Polls Show Majority Like GOP's Discredited War Policies
Joe Conason

4 comments:

Matt Franko said...

Disagree with Conason here... the Dems have the edge with the socio-economic justice cohort and the GOP has the edge with the national security cohort...

the GOP has an operation in place to peck at the socio-economic justice cohort that is being run by Rove/Ryan...

Matt Franko said...

this article is a good example of the left being 'pro Democrat' or 'anti GOP' rather than 'progressive' or 'liberal'...

Matt Franko said...

"The Progressives believed in the Hamiltonian concept of positive government, of a national government directing the destinies of the nation at home and abroad. They had little but contempt for the strict construction of the Constitution by conservative judges, who would restrict the power of the national government to act against social evils and to extend the blessings of democracy to less favored lands. The real enemy was particularism, state rights, limited government"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism_in_the_United_States

so the left should not complain that no one sees themselves as 'progressive' these days...

Ryan Harris said...

Dems cut military and social programs and don't really have any policy besides "what is popular now" and calling Republicans stupid. Then they throw high income earners regulatory bones and always offer to increase the number of people enrolled in universities to fix the defective people, of course, not using government money, but student loans to keep their Coastal patrons happy.

The GOP strong military policy works well to boost government spending on R&D, soldiers and equipment. The GOP is as dreadful on social policy as Dems, but at least they have Seniors on their team. As long as we don't get a President like Bush that actually wants to go to war... it is far better than the Dem plan.