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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto">There was a very nice discussion on NPR today about how Democratic Socialism is growing in popularity, particularly among younger voters. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="LGEmailSignatureBox" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"=""><i>Sent from my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>Estabrook, Carl G via Peace-discuss<peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net></peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net></div><div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Thu, Jul 19, 2018 10:20 PM</div><div dir="auto"><b>To: </b>Stuart Levy;C G Estabrook;David Johnson;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Cc: </b>Peace Discuss;Karen Aram;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Those evil Russians</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
<div style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt;">There was an anti-Russia - even pro-war - demonstration on the floor of the House tonight: Democrats chanting, "USA! USA!" <br>
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The Republicans didn't join in. <br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Those evil Russians<br>
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<div>You'd raised the question a few months ago, Which party would be least likely to push for war?<br>
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My broad answer: I think we're best off at times when the political system is deadlocked. Remember 2013, when the Obama admin. was all set to attack Syria directly, and backed off when they realized that Congress wouldn't go for it - especially the Republicans
who would oppose anything O. supported. <br>
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So by that logic, we don't want a House, Senate, and Pres of all the same party. We're stuck with this Pres for at least a couple more years.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/19/2018 06:39 PM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">This raises the question, which party given control of Congress in the fall elections will be more progressive?
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<div class="">For generations US liberals have answered immediately, “The Democrats!," In spite of wars and accelerating inequality under Democratic administrations. (No president has been at war throughout two terms - until Obama.)</div>
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<div class="">But given the Russia-gate campaign, and the excoriation of President Trump’s peace talks with North Korea and Russia, it seems clear that Democrats' commitment to the ‘war party” disqualifies them from control of the Congress. </div>
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<div class="">Some people (often outside the US political scene) saw this clearly from early on. The Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger wrote before the 2016 election, "The CIA has demanded Trump not be elected. Pentagon generals have demanded
he not be elected. The pro-war New York Times - taking a breather from its relentless low-rent Putin smears - demands that he not be elected. Something is up. These tribunes of 'perpetual war' are terrified that the multi-billion-dollar business of war by
which the United States maintains its dominance will be undermined if Trump does a deal with Russian president Putin, then with China’s president Xi Jinping. Their panic at the possibility of the world’s great power talking peace – however unlikely – would
be the blackest farce were the issues not so dire…”</div>
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<div class="">The war-mongering of the Democrats may require our voting for feckless Republicans, as in this Congressional district (IL-13). That seems to be - deplorably enough - the only anti-war position. —CGE<br class="">
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<div class="">On Jul 17, 2018, at 10:50 AM, David Johnson via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:14pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(31,73,125)">Very well said Karen.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:14pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(31,73,125)">I can only add to your list – The Russians aren’t preventing the American people from having ; universal PUBLIC healthcare, free post high school education, $ 15 minimum
wage, clean renewable energy, public control of our water systems and utilities as well as secure retirement pensions. The ones preventing all of the above are the Democrats and the Republicans as you so accurately said.</span></div>
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<b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Peace-discuss [<a href="mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net" class="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On
Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Karen Aram via Peace-discuss<br class="">
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<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Peace-discuss] Those evil Russians</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(29,33,41)">Vince Emanuele:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(29,33,41)">The Russians didn't gut, attack and destroy unions in the U.S. The Russians aren't responsible for NAFTA, TPP, GATT, outsourcing, corporate welfare, etc.
The Russians didn't deregulate the financial industry, allowing Wall Street to destroy our economy and create unprecedented wealth/income inequality. The Russians aren't killing young black kids in the streets. The Russians didn't militarize the police. The
Russians didn't create the War on Drugs. The Russians didn't create the School-to-Prison pipeline. The Russians aren't responsible for slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, or the Prison Industrial Complex. The Russians didn't invade Iraq and Afghanistan, spending
$3.6 trillion. The Russians didn't poison kids in Flint or East Chicago. The Russians didn't divest in our nation's infrastructure.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(29,33,41)">The Russians didn't nominate Hillary Clinton, the second most loathed politician in modern history. The Russians didn't subsidize the U.S. fossil fuel industry,
allowing the most destructive industries on the planet to kill the living world with no consequences. The Russians didn't destroy the public school system in the U.S., allowing charter schools to privatize public goods. The Russians didn't create our homeless
population or shut down our mental health facilities. The Russians didn't enact the Patriot Act, stripping our civil liberties and creating institutions like ICE. The Russians didn't create our immigration crisis, nor are they responsible for putting kids
in cages throughout the U.S.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(29,33,41)">The Russians didn't clear cut old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, nor did they dam our rivers and kill the salmon. The Russians didn't strip American
women of their reproductive rights, or allow the NRA to control our legislative bodies. The Russians didn't allow media corporations to consolidate into five companies that control everything we see, read, or hear. The Russians didn't overthrow democratically
elected governments throughout the Western Hemisphere. The Russians didn't allow the pharmaceutical industry to create a nation of addicts. And the Russians aren't allowing U.S. veterans to die by the thousands waiting for treatment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(29,33,41)">You must be thinking of the Democrats and Republicans....</span></p>
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