(09-26-2020, 01:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The predominant ideology of the conservative side among most of its adherents seems to be: "I hate liberals"
They want super-cheap, cowed labor in their "dark satanic mills" or on their giant plantations (American farming is becoming that, it is sad to say), and cannon fodder to spread their sick way of life into places in which such is unwelcome.
Donald Trump is more a fascist than a conservative, and his derisive words about soldiers and veterans suggests that if he did get 'his' war for his glorification and the profit of warmongering interests, he would turn American soldiers into cannon fodder for 'liberating' Cuba and Venezuela. Some of his supporters would get 'their' plantations back, and Big Oil would get custody of Venezuelan oil fields. Trump is the worst sort of leader that one could have in war because he so discounts the value of the troops. He has no pity.
It is too late for him to start a war of aggression before he gets re-elected (or steals the election), so defeating the Trumpenstein monster solves that problem for us Americans.
In view of our President's callousness about mass death that has taken over 205,000 lives already, what is another 200,000 in a War for Profit? Count on wars as deadly as those in Korea and Vietnam, only with widespread condemnation of America from countries that we have usually considered good friends.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.