re: #232 Lidane

Because the teachers union tends to endorse Democrats. Defense contractors? Not so much.

Well, defense contractors are part of the American ideal of KICKING ASS and BLOWING STUFF UP and BRAGGING ABOUT WEAPONRY and MAKING EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE WEAPONRY because PLANES AND TANKS ARE AWESOME! and so are HELMETS with those little RADIOS where you get to shoot a CRUISE MISSILE like a VIDEO GAME and YAY PATRIOTIC and GOD GUNS and GUTS AND APPLE PIE

Whereas taking care of our health? With infrastructure? That doesn’t play with America’s power fantasies. Not sexy. Because that doesn’t have a toy soldier you grew up with, or a toy plane, or a bunch of glamorous movies about war, or a bunch of glamorous books about war.

How many in America fantasize about being a doctor? or a scientist? or a nurse prac? How many people talk about being a part of a health care family versus being part of a military family? How many fantasize about LITERALLY saving lives, versus how many fantasize about beating the bad guys in iraq, in ‘taking out” iran, about bombing and invading and conquering and revenge and destruction