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In reply to the discussion: Rural Americans don't want job training [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(14,868 posts)They have notions of what it means "to be an American", and it applies to them.
I personally wish people would be more concerned about what's best for humanity as a whole. I didn't even notice many Democrats in this country fretting about the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis killed in Dumbya's idiotic invasion. It's pretty rare to hear even a liberal question the idea that soldiers are "protecting our freedom" when most of their actions (mostly as pawns by following orders) seem to be endangering us and the rest of the world instead.
No real direction other than faith in corporate tyrannies and so-called free markets (another myth). NSC 68 (from 1950) is still the blueprint in which this country operates: Large defense spending to promote USA "exceptionalism" around the globe AND to provide a Keynesian stimulus for capitalism that would likely "repeat history" and demonstrate more frequent economic depressions without it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSC-68
Corporations get all kinds of taxpayer-funded R&D out of it, a major cost-savings for them. They can profit from the stuff after it's practical and marketable. The internet, communications, etc.
We could've had Keynesian stimulus from more investments in infrastructure, which would apply to both the plight of inner cities and poor rural areas, but NSC 68 still rules the day. It has a lot of inertia after all these years, unfortunately.