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In reply to the discussion: Just a reminder to those who may not be aware, the Democratic Socialists of America, (DSA), blamed the [View all]SunSeeker
(56,472 posts)The Democratic Party pulled our troops out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, after the Republicans started those wars.
We didn't invade Vietnam. We provided military support to the South Vietnamese against the Russian backed North Vietnamese. It was Nixon who secretly sabotaged the Vietnam War peace talks so he could get elected...then escalated the war with secret bombing campaigns in neighboring countries.
The Democratic Party does not and never supported the masked Gestapo force that Homeland Security and ICE have become under Trump.
With regard to gay marriage and interracial marriage, it was the Democratic Party who championed both as public opinion turned to support both, yet it is Republicans threaten both.
Japanese internment was not just a Democratic Party thing. A poll from the American Institute of Public Opinion in March 1942 shows that 93 percent of Americans were in favor of the removal of Japanese immigrants and 59 percent supported the removal of Japanese American citizens. The Democratic Party acknowledged that Japanese interment was wrong, but the Republican Party is literally repeating that wrong today with their ICE internment camps.
What matters most, of course, is what positions a political party holds currently. That "nauseating list" you conjured up about the Democratic Party does not represent its current positions. But as far as anyone can tell, the DSA still thinks NATO should not exist and family structure should not exist either.
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