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The federal government cannot pay for both war and education, health, and housing, according to the president. He promised the opposite on the campaign trail. We are supposed to forget that.
We live in a flawed but still functioning democracy. The American people are solidly, sensibly against this stupid war, and need to make sure their lawmakers get the message.
"Our tax dollars are doing more to bomb children in Iran and other countries than to feed and educate children here."
"We cannot live this way," wrote one journalist in response to President Donald Trump's ominous threat to start another new war.
His latest spending proposals build on his history of overseeing significant reductions in taxes and dramatic increases in defense spending, in line with core conservative goals.
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
Moments like this don’t come around often. The candidates are there. The coalition is forming. Don’t let this one pass.
Trump's military gamble in the Middle East isn't just reckless foreign policy. It could be the opening move in the end of American democracy as we know it.
"The latest jobs data show how President Trump's mismanagement of the economy—both domestically and internationally—is harming workers at home," said another expert.