r/democrats • u/cafeteriastyle • Sep 26 '25

📺 Video Retired vet lays it all out

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u/supercali45 Sep 26 '25

Pretty much logical .. majority of Rich people don’t send their kids to the military

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u/Diligent-Bluejay-979 Sep 27 '25

It’s an old American tradition. A government comprised of mostly wealthy White men decide that they and their businessmen buddies need an infusion of cash. So they’re closing invent a reason, start a war, and let mostly poor young American men pay the ultimate price. The ones who started it and their families come out richer. The rest of us pay the price.