Some folks make a living decrying our two Parties' similarities, claiming there is "no difference" between them. This untrue. There are significant similarities but there are also significant differences.
The similarities between the Parties are evident in their approaches to 'international' affairs, and growing, supporting and protecting the US Empire, as Prez. Joe's attack yestiddy in Syria demonstrates. And before him, Obama carried on the imperial policies of the Bushevik era.
Neither Party scruples much about the application of deadly power to advance or consolidate the Empire's global interests. Their policies transcend "party" considerations, and are remarkably similar across regimes, R or D.
There are, however, also marked differences between them, which emerge spectacularly in the domestic sphere, where the Ds support a kind of somewhat generous, expansive "social democratic" model--at least to SOME degree--which dispenses the Empire's wealth among its citizens, whereas the Rs' corporate allegiances turn the flow into capital, and rely on "trickle-down" to keep the proles content.
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