Originally posted on my website, TheLibertyAdvocate.com.
Popular support for war is astoundingly low. This is a trend that the media is trying to cover up and reverse. At the DNC a large group of people started shouting “NO MORE WAR!” during a warmongering speech by Leon Panetta, resulting in Panetta having to temporarily stop his speech. Here’s the video:
Donald Trump, the most non-interventionist Republican candidate, got the nomination. Gary Johnson, the (mostly) non-interventionist Libertarian candidate, is getting a massive amount of support (the most recent poll I found put him at 13%) for a third-party candidate. Trump has criticized NATO and said that we were lied into the Iraq war. Fifty-two percent of those interviewed in a Pew poll say the United States “should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own.” Just 38% disagree with that statement. It’s so encouraging that so many people are waking up to the reality that the USG’s foreign policy is immoral and destructive (both economically and in terms of lives lost). Most people don’t even know that non-intervention is an option, yet they instinctively are drawn to the common sense of the position when asked.
Meanwhile, the war machine keeps on going, with the Washington Establishment doing everything it can to make sure that they don’t get crushed in the rising tide of public outrage against the military-industrial complex ripping them off. There is a complete disconnect between the corporate and political elites and the majority of the public. War propaganda is on the news 24/7 while big-wig congressmen and Pentagon officials are talking about “Russian aggression”, the need to “rebuild” the military, and the “fight for freedom” in the Middle East. Sooner or later, the warmongers will be defeated, either when the government has gone completely bankrupt, and/or when public opinion will be so against war that the Washington Overlords will be so scared of the masses that they will have to end their foreign policy of interventionism. This massive antiwar sentiment that so many people have worked to achieve shows that fighting for liberty can and is making a difference.