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16Nov/091

The LDS doctrine is against war and for defense.

A quote from the first presidency of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.

The Church as a Church does not believe in war and yet since its organization whenever war has come we have done our part …
we do thoroughly believe in building up our home defenses to the maximum extent necessary,
but we do not believe that aggression should be carried on in the name and under the false cloak of defense.
We therefore look with sorrowing eyes at the present use to which a great part of the funds being raised by taxes and by borrowing is being put …
We believe that our real threat comes from within and not from without,
and it comes from the underlying spirit common to Naziism, Fascism, and Communism,
namely, the spirit which would array class against class, which would set up a socialistic state of some sort,
which would rob the people of the liberties which we possess under the Constitution, and would set up such a reign of terror as exists now in many parts of Europe …
(LDS First Presidency, 1941, via Quoty)

To understand the historical setting and read the rest of the letter go to this insightful post by Connor Boyack


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12Nov/090

Republicrats

Republicans are right wing??

Hate to break it to most of you but that mostly stopped a little while ago.

There are some that still are but most of them certainly aren't conservative.

Perhaps some of the radio guys feign at being conservative (in the small government agree with the constitution kinda way) I'd prefer it if you would refer to them as Republicrats from now on ;)

They're mostly the same thing.
They both like war and spending more than we have, going into debt, controlling the lives of their subjects.
Bribing the people with their OWN MONEY.
They just change numbers around and bicker about any small inconsequential things most of the time and get real excited any time they find differences to argue about and push people to the other side, Which isn't much of an actual "Wing" when it comes to real life political spectrums.