Your whole rant contradicts itself. And I don't think you actually know what each party' beliefs are based on. I mean, you do realize that every war before Bush1 and Bush2 were started by Democratic presidents, right? Remember former VP Biden? He was a senator during the Vietnam War and actively opposed accepting Vietnamese refugees, including orphans (and Amerasian orphans, i.e. kids w/ a US parent). My own state governor Brown tried to prevent planes carrying Vietnamese refugees from landing at Travis Air Force Base outside San Francisco. You sound like a mindless voter who isn't even aware of his own party's actions or their politicians.

My rant? Whatever.

Parties are incredibly contexual and change their beliefs all the time. It doesn't matter what the parties did 50 years ago, because they wouldn't necessarily support those things now.

You sound like a mindless voter who isn't even aware of his own party's actions or their politicians.

The left lately is the party of anti-war. So I could have seen them wanting to distance us from abroad (and then use the cut spending on social programs).

What I cannot understand is our republicans, the most recent party of warhawks, from wanting to distance from our traditional allies to cozy up to our traditional enemies. I mean, what the hell? They want to trade fellow democratic contries with modern militaries we're already allied with and the associated modern economies for broke ass russia?