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64 sats \ 7 replies \ @kepford 23 Oct \ on: Biden's Absurd War in Yemen Continues Politics_And_Law
Remember when the left was anti-war? I know you do @siggy47.
I still remember the protests against W. Bush and when I realized how the system worked. I started to oppose war. I wasn't dumb enough to believe Obama's promises but I do remember hoping I was wrong about him. We all know I wasn't. He was Bush 2.0. And that was the last time (other than Israel) that I can recall a significant left wing anti-war movement.
I have to hand it to the MIC. They have done a great job getting the left on board with death again. Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about the politicians. They have always worked for the war machine. But in the 60s there was an actual anti-war movement. Its long dead.
Remember when the left was anti-war?
My working theory is that the longer a party is in power, the more pro-war they become and the longer a party is out of power the more anti-war they become.
I consider the Trump years as a continuation of the left being in power from the Obama years, because Trump didn't really have institutional support from the conservative power-centers in DC, and because of the left's total dominance of academic and elite institutions.
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I agree to some extent, but there were plenty of Republican neocons to step up into his cabinet and show Trump how it's done.
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I took @SimpleStacker to be referring to the plebs in the movements. Not the leadership. I don't think the left or right are ideologically opposed to war. Not the leadership. They both work for the MIC and "Corporate America". Remember that buzzword? Now its more like the Global Elite. Same people though.
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You stated it well. I wasn't old enough to really understand the Vietnam era protests, but there was the general shorthand through the 80s that the left opposed war.
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