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BumRushDaShow

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4. Modern "isolationalism"

Reply to Mosby (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 22, 2025, 06:59 PM

Jun 22

is a tool of "nationalists" and "xenophobes" and liberals are neither.

In this case, it's the issue of feeding the MIC while literally gutting things like healthcare, education, and other programs needed domestically.

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Protests erupt calling for Trump, U.S. to stay out of war in Middle East [View all] BumRushDaShow Jun 22 OP

Is isolationism the goal? Mosby Jun 22 #1

No. Justice Brandeis Jun 22 #2

Pretty much every poll on the topic Mosby Jun 22 #3

You are being unbelievably sarcastic, right?! Gosmudgeyourself Jun 22 #6

Don't shoot the messenger. BidenRocks Jun 22 #8

Enough is enough Gosmudgeyourself Jun 22 #14

Nobody is being shot here.... Jack Valentino Jun 22 #18

Its changing Mosby Jun 22 #13

It's not what they say, it's what they do Gosmudgeyourself Jun 22 #16

There is a split in the MAGat movement - in some cases, anti-neocon as part of their attempt at "populist" rhetoric BumRushDaShow Jun 22 #17

It sure seems like trump is the one isolating us: with the tariffs, threatening to take Greenland, now this. C Moon Jun 22 #15

Liberals are the LEAST isolationist... It is conservatives who have opposed Jack Valentino Jun 22 #19

Not the young ones. Mosby Jun 22 #23

I'm OLD and agree that we should cut off military aid to Israel Jack Valentino Jun 22 #24

So you are a liberal non-interventionist. Mosby Jun 22 #25

I'm not a "non-interventionist"---- except in THIS case... Jack Valentino Jun 22 #26

Modern "isolationalism" BumRushDaShow Jun 22 #4

Do not "Live Long And Prosper", BidenRocks Jun 22 #10

We have way too many problems within the US avebury Jun 22 #11

I think the attack on Iran by Trump was partly meant to be a distraction Jack Valentino Jun 22 #20

Deja vu all over again. OMGWTF Jun 22 #5

We couldn't stop the war---- but--- Jack Valentino Jun 22 #21

MAGA are isolationist which attacking Iran is not. Blue Full Moon Jun 22 #7

You don't say NO to a man like Moe Green SomedayKindaLove Jun 22 #9

well, the op itself probably didn't cost very much in the grand scheme of things... Jack Valentino Jun 22 #22

Trump doesn't follow ANY ideology, he just wants just power and money. He can never get enough. OverBurn Jun 22 #12