re: #367 Slumbering Behemoth

Oh, I’m not saying that, just that the average American was a lot more involved in the war effort then than any war effort today. Massive recycling campaigns, rationing of every thing under the sun, and the attitude that paying taxes to fund the war effort was your patriotic duty.

What I mean is, I think the average person’s opinion today would be very different on the subject of over seas conflict if they had to make those kinds of sacrifices at home.

Can you imagine how today’s Tea Party wing of the GOP would react if they were told that paying increased taxes to fund a war effort was their patriotic duty? They’d shit an Empire State Building.

Ah. OK. Heck. The Tea Party would say it was a European problem in the first place. The sacrifices they would have to make would have resulted in kvetching raised to a fevered pitch.