Quote Originally Posted by Basil77
Quote Originally Posted by почемучка
If you want to characterize the current mainstream American conservative movement as having an ideology that is aggressive, nationalistic, and borderline imperialistic, that's fine. I wouldn't really disagree with you. But you shouldn't just ignore the other half of the country.
Sometimes I dislike democratic ideology even more than conservative one. Democratic mainstream sometimes can be poor-Albanians-suffering-genocide-from-evil-Serbs-defending , gay-rights-supporting ,peaceful
-Gaza-flotilla-activist-interceding, etc.
Of the three examples you gave, I'd say only the Serbia intervention was really a Democratic party plank. Gay rights is on its way, but I don't think it's quite there yet; it enjoys broad support on the left but it hasn't been fully embraced by the party.