This is my position, too, and what is as obvious as all get-out to me is:
This is the position of
everyone on this site!
OK? I mean, I hate to point out the obvious, but apparently no one else was going to do it, and a whole lot of folks seem to be missing this somehow, despite its blatant couldn't-be-more-obvious obviousness.
1. Against socialism. Would not endorse policies of socialism.
2. Against interventionism. Would not endorse the US invading potholes for being socialist.
This two-part position is the position of everyone here. There are some deep-seated animosities between various people on RPF, however, and so they have chosen to be belligerent at each other over this issue,
even though they completely agree!
That is our situation.
Now. That said.
There is only a very, very small percentage of people who can sustain bifurcated opinions like this. It's like understanding complex numbers (43i, √π). Can you? I can't. Same with choosing opinions on current events. And even people with the mental capacity to do it are only going to go to the trouble very occasionally.
Every current event that pops up, every new random thing that grazes our cranium, is by default a binary choice. You choose camp A, or camp B. The girl is Hot, or she is Not. You ask her out, or you don't. This is how the brain is set up. You side with Maduro, or you side with Eliot Abrams. You side with Saddam Hussein, or you side with The American Flag. You Fight, or you Flight. You're a Boy, or a Girl. Binary. You start trying to make things non-binary and things can get real confusing and strange, real fast.
So even here on RPF, we have the binary split:
Camp One is choosing to emphasize the socialist crimes of King Bobonut of the Jungle.
Camp Two is choosing to emphasize their irritation with Yet Another Stupid Proxy War build-up.
And that's actually sensible and natural enough, because it is in fact a binary choice! Either we:
1. Get Duped (again) and Go to War with Russia some pothole in South Stinking America, or
2. We don't.
One of those two (2) things will happen.
So, I choose Camp Two.
Camp Two is the right camp.
Hands down, my friends. Hands down.
And So,
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