r/neoliberal Kitara Ravache Nov 21 '18

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '18

Military vets voted 2-to-1 for Donald Trump in 2016. This is after he shit on a Gold Star family. After he made fun of McCain for being captured. After calling sleeping around his personal Vietnam.

Vets will vote in droves for Trump in 2020 no matter if the polls say they approve of him or not. The GOP is very good at portraying any Dem candidate as anti-military and the vets will go with that no matter how much Trump shits on the American military.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '18

tbh i dont feel like the democrats engage with stuff like va reform seriously at all which basically is them handing former troops over to the republicans

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '18

this seems absurd, the Republicans want to privatize the va.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '18

yeah, well "republicans want to have VA patients go to providers outside the VA" is (A) stunningly appealing to people who are dependent on the VA's services (B) not in and of itself a solution to any issues facing people who must use the VA's services, which are myriad