Only one in ten American voters want a bigger military budget. Congress keeps approving massive spending increases anyway, as it did when it voted for a nearly $1 trillion military budget last week.
Only one in ten American voters want a bigger military budget. Congress keeps approving massive spending increases anyway, as it did when it voted for a nearly $1 trillion military budget last week.
Sorry, since when has it been relevant what the people want?
“The people?” Not in a long time. But what “those people” want? About 75 years
It’s also not true in a relevant way. In the abstract, on its own, sure. If a presidential candidate argued for less military spending during an election campaign they would be painted as weak , and trying to weaken American increasingly dangerous world. Probably conspiracy theories about them being a foreign agent. And they would either lose outright or at least pay a significant political price.
People still point at Carter for putting on a sweater and suggesting people turn down their thermostat.
Maybe it was not said in public that he was a pussy, but I assure you that a whole lot of people said it in private.
Same sort of thing goes for being “manly” about bombing brown people in foreign lands and spending lots of money on it.