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Why is it assumed that anyone that doesn't like Obama must like Bush? They are both in favor of huge spending. They both support wars that we probably don't n
by bcheung 11y ago
Why is it assumed that anyone that doesn't like Obama must like Bush? They are both in favor of huge spending. They both support wars that we probably don't need. They both are in favor of the Patriot Act. They both spend tax payer dollars towards their own crony special interests.
- guelo 11y agoThe deleted parent comment said that Obama supported the Patriot Act because he is a socialist. But the Patriot Act was originally Bush's law.
- greenyoda 11y ago"But the Patriot Act was originally Bush's law." The Patriot Act received broad bi-partisan support in the wake of 9/11. It passed in the House 357 to 66 and in the Senate 98 to 1,[1] which means that a very large majority of Democrat legislators voted for it (including then-Senator Hillary Clinton). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#Details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#Details
- guelo 11y agoSure but most of the opposition was from the Democrats. It just irks me that libertarians think they invented civil liberties when it has traditionally been a liberal issue, for example with the ACLU. War, police powers, law and order, three strikes, the drug war are not "communist" ideas, capitalist conservatives have always been the biggest proponents of these idea.
- cpursley 11y agoYep, and there's an even more precise term for this political ideology: National Socialism