{"id":125688,"date":"2022-10-03T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/10\/03\/the-democratic-party-now-the-leading-party-for-war\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:13:00","slug":"the-democratic-party-now-the-leading-party-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/the-democratic-party-now-the-leading-party-for-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democratic Party: Now the Leading Party for War"},"content":{"rendered":"

John V. Walsh reports: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLast May a remarkable column<\/a> by Stephen Kinzer<\/a> appeared in the Boston Globe. It was headlined: \u2018Republicans Return to Their Roots as The Antiwar Party.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

More significantly, the subheading ran: \u2018Since the Vietnam era, Americans have come to expect antiwar rhetoric from liberal Democrats. Cancel that.\u2019 It began:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018With Americans now engulfed in passion for Ukraine, it wasn\u2019t surprising that President Biden proposed sending $33 billion worth of weaponry and other aid to Ukraine\u2019s beleaguered military<\/a>. Nor was it surprising that Congress raised the number to $40 billion<\/a>, or that both the Senate and House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor. Hidden within that lopsided vote, though, was a shocker: Every single \u2018no\u2019 vote \u2013 11 in the Senate and 57 in the House \u2013 came from a Republican.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Since the Vietnam era, Americans have come to expect antiwar rhetoric from liberal Democrats. Cancel that. This month\u2019s votes in Washington signal a dramatic role reversal. Suddenly it is conservative Republicans who oppose US involvement in foreign wars.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Strikingly not only did the \u2018conservative\u2019 Democrats vote for the $40 billion that included more weapons of death and destruction for Joe Biden\u2019s cruel proxy war against Russia to the last Ukrainian. All the \u2018progressives\u2019 did so, including AOC and The Squad, Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, Barbara Lee and all the rest. It was a clean sweep.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, this was not a one-off event. There is another vote coming up in the next few weeks for another $13.7 billion for Ukraine with over $7 billion for weapons. What is the response of the 100 Democrats to this request by Biden? The answer came during the September 11 Week Of Action called for by Code Pink and the progressive Peace In Ukraine Coalition reported here<\/a> as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

“In the nation\u2019s capital CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, together with Colonel Ann Wright and other activists, kicked off the Week of Action, going door to door to the offices of the House Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), \u2026. While some members of the caucus call for much-needed diplomacy and raise concerns about the risk of nuclear war \u2013 either through a miscalculation or an intentional first strike \u2013 not one member of the nearly 100-member CPC will commit to voting against more weapons for Ukraine.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Read more: <\/strong><\/a><\/span>The Democratic Party, Now the Leading Party of War<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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