The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-19-2020, 09:01 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Lets see:  Small government....Reduced taxes....military preparedness.  Sounds like "Reaganism" is just good ole fashioned "Americanism".  Now if we could get that with side of isolationism and a sprinkle of autarky mixed in that would be prefect.  

All that said I'm going to be mining liberal salt come November 3rd I'm sure.

Actually, isolationism used to mean demilitarizing after every conflict.  A minimum skeleton military.  This was part of why crisis wars took typically four years or so.  We had to rebuild our military virtually from scratch, and relearn the business of war.  There was a scramble to rearm as conflicts like the Civil War and World War II came up.  Peacetime preparedness and the world's policeman role really started after World War II.

Of course abandoning preparedness now would be abandoning the field to the autocracies.  And dictators always were un American until recently.  Not surprising that you would endorse that, though. You always have supported the elites over the people.

Someone will be mining salt, certainly.  I think with the polls favoring those supporting a more scientific response to the virus, it will become clear pretty early who that will be.