See, Democrats talk about ending wars, being good citizens of the world and all that jazz -- while Republicans talk about peace through strength, making the world safe, etc.
They talk a different talk.
But when they get into office, they walk a nearly identical walk that has zilch to do with what they said.
It's smoke and mirrors -- bread and circuses -- to keep idiots amused so they don't riot.
where we're at is like at the fall of the Roman Empire. "bread and circuses -- to keep idiots amused so they don't riot."
And regardless of their banner, thney all serve the same puppetmasters at this point.
Hence the rhetorical differences are just that: rhetorical, with no more substance to their real world activities than the air that nestles between the hairs of a bouffant hairdo.
Oh to have been a fly on the wall at the last Bilderberger gathering.
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If it were something like a Bilderberger meeting, the solution would be easy.
Rather, I think it is more a matter of adding up thousands of points of what Arendt referenced as "banality of evil."
There is no one small group of puppetmasters; but a complex interlocking mess of competing interests each of which owns some portion of a representatives loyalty.
A lot of people get overly conspiracy minded in thinking one group or another is controlling everything. Be it the masons, the illuminati, or Alex Jones' Bilderberg group.
Rather than focus on that kind of nonsense, it makes more sense to do a real analysis of those political dollars, where they come from, where they go to, and the result of such bribery. The best work on this that I know if is Thomas Ferguson's Investment Theory of Politics.
the difference is called "rebuilding" ! It is sort of an economic growth, you got to an unnecessary war, bomb away, then pay to rebuild. So, whichever way you look, the tax payer is footing the bill for both and the cycle will continue regardless.
see, this is what the Tea Party types fail to understand - if you want to downsize govt, you've got to cut warfare as welfare.
Good luck with that.