Al McLellan writes:
Do you think Obama’s foreign policy makes sense? What is the logic? He always sides with the bad guys (super fascists).
The commenter is some sort of a Tea Partier. Can someone please inform me why Tea Partiers think the Obama’s foreign policy is bad because “he supports super fascists” while presumably Republican foreign policy does not support super fascists? Tea Partiers or Republicans in general never make any sense, but it is always interesting to see the reasoning behind whatever loony theory they are pushing now.
I do not like Obama’s foreign policy either, but US foreign policy is always evil since the US is an evil country. Only under Republicans it is a lot more evil and belligerent. It’s just sheer, raw naked, belligerent and often violent imperialism under both Republicans and Democrats. It’s really amazing that the Moronican people go along with a viciously imperialist foreign policy. Makes you wonder what kind of people we are.
US foreign policy under Democrats: reactionary imperialism.
US foreign policy under Republicans: ultra-rightwing, highly militaristic and belligerent imperialism.
Both parties are committed to the US imperial project.
The Democrats are generally less belligerent about it (but they can still be pretty nasty) and they in recent years, they are also less militaristic (though participate in a lot of wars). In recent years, the Democrats’ job has been cleaning up and slowly ending stupid wars that Republican radicals started. The Democrats threaten foreign countries a lot too, but the Republicans usually threaten a lot more, and are scarier with their threats.
Other than that, there is not a whole lot of difference between the two parties.
I agree that the Democratic Party domestic project is more progressive than the ultra-right wing Republican domestic project, which seems to be to wipe out government at all levels. Actually the Democrats are not really very progressive, but they just seem so compared to Republican mouth-breathers. In recent years, Democratic domestic policy seems to involve chasing the Republicans to the right (but always ending up significantly to the Left of the Republicans) and splitting the difference between the Democratic base and the Republican Party. This insanity is called triangulation, bipartisanship, splitting the difference, etc. I call it treason. On a world scale, there is nothing very liberal or progressive about the US Democratic Party. In fact, most European rightwing parties are to the Left of the US Democratic Party. The Democrats only seem liberal or progressive compared to the Republicans who are so far right that they are in danger of falling off the cliff into the dark and deadly ultra-right chasm below.
But on foreign policy, the Democrats just suck. It never fails to amaze me how good, decent, progressive, liberal Democrats line up behind whatever foreign policy atrocity is committed by a Democratic President. Actually Democratic “liberals” usually support Republican Presidents’ reactionary shenanigans too. I am not sure why that is, but in the US, to oppose US foreign policy is generally seen as some form of treason. To oppose US foreign policy is to spit on the flag, rip it to shreds and set it on fire. It is to side with the evil nations of the world against the World Beacon of Light and Good called America. It is to oppose the troops. You start opposing US foreign policy, and most liberals I know start yelling, “America love it or leave it!” US Democratic Party liberals are extremely weird on US foreign policy. I still don’t get it. I guess most US Democratic Party liberals are just as patriotarded as the rest of the country.
