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mustachedmystic posted...

You have far too much faith in missile defense if you think it would take out even half the missiles Russia would throw at us in a nuclear exchange.

By electing Trump, the Republican Party has taken off the mantle of Ronald Reagan.

Let us, as Democrats, pick it up and put it on, taking only the best elements of what Reagan stood for. His tireless pursuit of freedom for the oppressed peoples of Eastern Europe. His adamant opposition to the dictatorship in Moscow. His sacred conviction that America is a shining city on a hill, unique in the world -- which it is. A place whose freedoms millions of people all over the world aspire to -- which they do.

As Antifar has remarked, we need not burden ourselves with all of Reagan's faults and missteps, his support for the Sandinistas and the Mujahadeen, his double-dealings with Iran, the horrific acts which occurred in El Salvador and elsewhere. But let us take what was good about him and make it ours.

The Republican Party does not care about freedom anymore; they wish to see the Middle East in chains. They've deluded themselves into thinking Muslims have to be oppressed to be kept under control. They've deluded themselves into thinking Russia cannot be opposed, for doing so would be tantamount to nuclear war. They are leading this world down a path to destruction. We must be better than them and stand up for what is right. Stand up for freedom, and wear it proudly. If they won't, someone must.