Daily Topics - Monday August 22nd, 2016
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Third Party Scare: You would have us vote for the party whose president is killing little kids in drone strikes or and selling munitions to Saudi Arabia which does the same. I think that if the middle class would have had the common sense to vote only for third parties to tell both the republicans and democrats that "the people" have had enough we might actually get something done. It's not voting for a third party that continues the killing and destruction of the planet spawned by our two party system.
The US Army even celebrates the death and destruction by placing campaign ribbons on its official battle flag which still carries the 14 ribbons which stand for the 100 years of war against Native Americans from 1790 to 1890. They celebrate the killing of men, woman, and children of different races who might get in the way of profit for the few and the populace lets them get away with it. How sick is that?