I am a Democrat, but not a devoted, down-the-line,
full-agenda Democrat.
I am an inch from being a liberal version of a Pat Buchanan Republican.
I am especially pleased with his views on foreign affairs,
immigration, and protectionism.
“America First” is still a fine slogan for an American political
party.
I voted for Nixon in 1972 and GW in 2000, and for other
GOPsters now and again in between.
But facts are facts, and the portions of 20th Century
progressivism that pertain to the economy, protection of the working class,
protection of consumers, etc. are crucial to the lives of far too many
Americans, me included, for me, my wife, or anybody who isn’t very rich or
profoundly confused to vote GOP again, until some great changes happen.
And the fealty of the GOP to Zionism is disgraceful and even
anti-American, so far as it costs us a fortune and puts us repeatedly in harm's
way for no earthly good to America.
(Though the Democrats are not a lot better on this one, are they, really?)
(Though the Democrats are not a lot better on this one, are they, really?)
The rigid clericalism of many Republicans is alienating, too, and would repel me more if I believed more that they are serious and not just trolling for votes.
But the Democrats too often make mountains out of First Amendment molehills and pretend they are protecting us from Torquemada, and are too radical in their defense of all forms of sexual outlawry except pederasty, which they evidently oppose only so they can hammer the Catholic Church about it.
GW, by the way, was an unspeakable disappointment, given his campaign promises of non-interventionism and a "humble" foreign policy coupled with "compassionate conservatism."
(But on the other side there was that vain fool, Al Gore, who never could quite repudiate that contemptible sleaze, Bill Clinton, a man who certainly should have resigned the Oval Office for the good of the country as well as his party, neither of which concerned him as much as himself.)
In his second term, GW boldly attacked Social Security under pretense of saving it and almost immediately in his first he invaded and occupied two entire countries, a move he absurdly justified as a response to the most unlucky-hit terrorist attack in all of human history.
An attack that had nothing to do with Iraq and not even very much with Afghanistan, and certainly did not call for anything remotely like a decade-long and basically pointless war in response.
Kill a gnat with a 50 megaton nuke, why don't you.
And whine the cockroaches have survived.
But the Democrats too often make mountains out of First Amendment molehills and pretend they are protecting us from Torquemada, and are too radical in their defense of all forms of sexual outlawry except pederasty, which they evidently oppose only so they can hammer the Catholic Church about it.
GW, by the way, was an unspeakable disappointment, given his campaign promises of non-interventionism and a "humble" foreign policy coupled with "compassionate conservatism."
(But on the other side there was that vain fool, Al Gore, who never could quite repudiate that contemptible sleaze, Bill Clinton, a man who certainly should have resigned the Oval Office for the good of the country as well as his party, neither of which concerned him as much as himself.)
In his second term, GW boldly attacked Social Security under pretense of saving it and almost immediately in his first he invaded and occupied two entire countries, a move he absurdly justified as a response to the most unlucky-hit terrorist attack in all of human history.
An attack that had nothing to do with Iraq and not even very much with Afghanistan, and certainly did not call for anything remotely like a decade-long and basically pointless war in response.
Kill a gnat with a 50 megaton nuke, why don't you.
And whine the cockroaches have survived.
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