u/PairedSalesApproach

I understand voting for the lesser of two evils, but why identify as a Democrat?

I understand voting for the lesser of two evils, but why identify as a Democrat?

Here's Madeleine Albright (Clinton) saying on 60 Minutes that the death of 500,000 Iraqi kids was worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aV0Wir_i2M

Bill Clinton bombed a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan and lied about it.

https://www.hrw.org/news/1998/09/15/letter-president-clinton-urges-sudan-factory-inspection

Here's Hillary Clinton laughing about Gaddafi's death: "We came, we saw, he died! Hahaha!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXDU48RHLU

Obama killed a 16-year-old American in a drone strike. Robert Gibbs (close advisor and former press secretary) suggested the kid should have had a more responsible father.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/

Obama's Justice Department didn't prosecute a single top Wall Street executive for the 2008 financial crisis.

https://features.marketplace.org/why-no-ceo-went-jail-after-financial-crisis/

Biden told congress Israel wasn't blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza, contradicting our own findings findings.

https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken

The Pentagon ran an anti-vaxx disinformation campaign in the Philippines that continued into Biden's presidency. People died for no reason.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

I genuinely don't understand how people reconcile any of this with their support for the Democratic Party. Why call yourself a democrat? I would ask republicans the same question.

Edit: Even Jimmy Carter sold fighter weapons to Indonesia while its military was committing genocide in East Timor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/national/1979/06/16/us-jets-slated-for-indonesia/9c94f0b6-f9ae-4c3f-9076-a5eae6783b81/

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