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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (81510)	7/5/2018 10:52:22 AM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By Lane3 Respond to of 356746

Sure. And that is because it was just grafted on to entice the evangelicals into the party. Who didn't adopt it as an issue until they needed something other than school integration to make their entry into politics. As we have seen with Trump, the lure of power can drive all reason and principles out the door.

To: Lane3 who wrote (81510)	7/5/2018 5:20:26 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 356746

The National Review has a long article on NK. nationalreview.com It includes something that I do not recall being raised during this thread's discussion of the subject. -------------------- North Korea’s official doctrine of what we might call “racial socialism” holds that the Korean nationality (minjok) had been oppressed from time immemorial by the more powerful nations surrounding it — until a savior arose in the form of Kim Il-sung, who led his people into the shelter of the “independent socialist state” he fashioned in the North. The destiny of the Korean Volk will ultimately be fulfilled when all the Koreans of the peninsula are gathered together under that same independent socialist state — at which point a magnificent new historical era will commence, with Korea finally reunited and Koreans finally ready to stand up to all foreigners and take charge of history. Absolute and unconditional reunification of Korea under the authority of the Kim regime, then, is imperative — and nonnegotiable. This is not some bargaining chip to be horse-traded away for better terms on some other items of interest to North Korean leadership. The call for unconditional reunification stands as a central and sacred mission for the North Korean state. The inconvenient existence of the government of the Republic of Korea stands very much in the way of Pyongyang’s vision of a peninsula-wide racial utopia; thus the South Korean state must be erased from the face of the earth. Unless one takes seriously the North’s claim to unchallenged rule of all Koreans on the peninsula and its implacable determination to exterminate the other Korean state, one cannot make sense of Pyongyang’s unashamedly revisionist foreign and defense policies — or its obsession with nukes and missiles.