Reply #94: Thank you for calling me a "whiner"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

The only part of the DLC that is "in line with the interests of working class Americans'" is the part about "a strong defense," and that's only because Americans have been taught since grade school to equate patriotism and militarism and to support military adventures overseas unquestioningly. Because our troops are always for "freedom and democracy," you know, even when they aren't.

In practice, "a strong defense" means a blank check for the Pentagon and its corporate suppliers, even if it means starving domestic programs.

If that's what it means to be a DLC Democrat, then I definitely am not.

Instead of imposing our will on other countries through military might or lopsided trade agreements, let's be a shining example for the rest of the world by tending our own garden and "helping" other countries only when they ask for it.