Democrats esclated the Vietnam War and Republicans ended the war.
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carthur27 — 11 years ago(September 22, 2014 12:00 AM)
"It always seems a contradiction to me that lower class country folk are Republicans, when Republicans mainly tend to care mostly about the top 1% rich people."
I don't have the statistics from the 2012 election but for the 2008 election, people with assets of over $10 million voted 52% for Obama. Also the wealthiest people in the U.S. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett are Democrats. Wall Street since the 2008 financial meltdown has become decidedly Democrat whereas previously it was evenly split.
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shibez — 10 years ago(July 13, 2015 01:25 AM)
the reason why poor country/cowboy/redneck folks tend to vote republican is pretty simpleGUNS. republicans are always for pro gun laws so thats why those people vote for them. I'm pretty sure that republicans could make a law that allowed country folks property taxes to quadruple and they would still vote for them as long as their gun rights weren't taken away.
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IndigoFlame — 11 years ago(July 04, 2014 07:09 AM)
That, putting it politely, is booshwah. Third party candidate votes, in America, have led to some terrible outcomes. They split the majority opinion so the minority voice gets the seat. That's not how a republican democracy should work.
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IndigoFlame — 11 years ago(August 31, 2014 07:11 AM)
Troll much? Just look at the historical record. Third party candidates are manipulated by the party most diametrically opposed to that candidate. They do it to undermine their opposition.
And you are laughably naive of politics if you aren't aware of this tactic. It's the same thing as primary stacking. When New York becomes conservative you'd better believe there will be Democrats will vote in the Republican (or whoever) primary for the least conservative candidate. I've seen it happen in my state.
Maybe when you are a bit older and knowing about the world you won't be so easily fooled.
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IndigoFlame — 11 years ago(July 04, 2014 07:06 AM)
Not only that but the Boat People were the Democrats way of paying Nixon back for Watergate, his politics, being a Republican, having the nerve to get landslide election victories, his career
Yeah, the Democratic Party cut off funding for the peace transition for their own vengeance and they got their own little genocide.
Walter Cronkite has gone on record that he skewed his weekly radio reports to disfavor our troops because he was anti war.
I was looking at a list of good movies to watch this Fourth. How could this flick be at the top? Dear GOD.
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grp00 — 11 years ago(January 02, 2015 11:03 AM)
Nixon did NOT end the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War ended in 1975 when the NVA tanks crashed through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon! Nixon was long out of office in complete disgrace and there were no US combat troops there by that time. Simply put, the Vietnamese ended the war, not the US.
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sonofbeach-sheet — 10 years ago(July 19, 2015 07:53 PM)
Wasn't Barry Goldwater against going to war with Vietnam? I thought I recall a speech he made one time that America does not go to war unless it's total in or out and until you win. Or else bomb the hell out of them and it's over in a month.
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Balberith — 10 years ago(January 30, 2016 04:49 PM)
"Nixon did NOT end the Vietnam War." He did. The peace pacts were signed on January 27, 1973 in Paris and the last US combat forces left on March 29, 1973.
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joana-pedroso15 — 10 years ago(September 08, 2015 05:54 PM)
True. You just gave one reason why people should forget party affiliations and look at the values, intentions and honesty of the candidate.
Parties are just part of the system, even in the democrat party you have what they call the wall street democrats that support candidates that frankly to me look more like republicans than anything else. You have smart republicans too like Ron Paul for example (I strongly agree with his foreign policy opinions but that's all, don't agree with social and economic opinions). So just like I said, look at the man/woman character and ideas not at the party he/she belongs to.
To me, I don't give a beep if the person is a democrat, a republican, a libertarian, a socialist, a progressive or whatever you want to call it. I listen to what the candidate has to say, i listen to the ideas. If they inspire good things I support the candidate. If they bring hate, I don't. That simple.