The DNC removed David Hogg (25) and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta through a virtual vote on Wednesday night, stemming from a procedural complaint unrelated to Hogg's primary activities. Hogg (25) said he would now focus his efforts on Leaders We Deserve, the group he co-founded, which said it would take on "asleep-at-the-wheel" Democrats by pledging to spend $20 million on safe-seat Democratic primaries. Hogg's plan, announced in April, triggered a wave of anger from elected officials and DNC members, who argued that Hogg's role as a party leader conflicted with the decision to take on incumbents. One analyst writes the Democratic Party implosion is worse than you think: PJ Media
The well-entrenched dinosaurs of the DNC, AIPAC, and the status quo have spoken, averting the incoming asteroid. The party of FDR and JFK simply exists to be the foil for the GOP, and not an agent of necessary change demanded by the hardworking American taxpayer tired of the status quo. The Democratic Party will suffer a permanent loss of six to eight million antiwar samaritans and progressives in future national elections because of US support for Israel, just as the Democratic Party lost voters in 1968 and 2024. Link: Why the Dems Lost
#11: Yup. That sums it up. If John Steinbeck, Will Rogers, and Adlai Stevenson were alive, they would look at today's Democratic Party and say, "Why, you guys are nothing but Republican lite." images.heb.com
@#22 ... You said that you participated in the anti Vietnam war movement. Do you not realize you were a Communist stooge? ...
I protested the Vietnam War because I wanted our troops to come home safely. In that respect, the war-hawks of the time greed with me.
Apparently, the US Government seemed to agree when it eventually gave up in Vietnam.
Now, fast-forward a few decades, look at the US-Vietnam relations ...
Readout of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's Meeting With Vietnam's Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang
www.defense.gov
...On May 31, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth met with Vietnam's Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang. Both leaders appreciated progress in the bilateral defense relationship, reflecting that 2025 is the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The leaders discussed opportunities to deepen defense cooperation, including on defense trade and information sharing, and reaffirmed that war legacy issues are a top priority of the Trump Administration. ...
And that cooperation is not something new ...
U.S., Vietnam Deepening Defense Cooperation
www.defense.gov (October 2024)
... Defense cooperation and shared security interests in Vietnam have been expanding, said Jedidiah P. Royal, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs.
On Sept. 9, 2023, President Joe Biden traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, where the two countries took steps to elevate relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership encompassing cooperation across a range of diplomatic, economic and defense industrial endeavors, among others, said Royal, who spoke today at the U.S. Institute of Peace's 3rd Annual Dialogue On War Legacies and Peace in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. ...
So, did my protests back in the 1970's against the Vietnam War result in A Good Thing in the long term regarding Vietnam?
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