Those who attack #Democracy will find out the hard way that choices and actions have CONSEQUENCES. They will cry and whine and whataboutthem but these choices and these consequences belong to them. PLEASE help build this thread with any consequences you can ADD..#Consequences
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸 Keeping Faith with Our Veterans and Military Families
🇺🇸Only one party believes that our force is stronger when we treat our service members, veterans, and their families with the dignity they’ve earned. 1/12
#Democrats believe that our force is stronger when it reflects the richness and diversity of American society, and when we treat our service members, veterans, and their families with the dignity they’ve earned. 2/12 #DemPartyPlatform#MilitaryFamilies
#Democrats will protect and enhance opportunities for anyone who can meet the standards to serve in combat roles, and we will fight the scourge of rape and sexual assault in our military, end retaliation and impunity, and take care of survivors. 3/12 #DemPartyPlatform
As I work on threading the 2020 #DemPartyPlatform for Twitter users, I often think about how the republicans this year did not meet (even virtually),hash out,debate or draft a 2020 platform of their own.What kind of major political party chooses this path? #GOPBetrayedAmerica
What does this say about the
Republican Party of today? Are they unorganized? Unmotivated? Unable to come to consensus? Unsure? Useless? Corrupt? Sycophantic? Why don’t we ask @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell? He’s been sorta quiet on the matter. #GOPBetrayedAmerica
A Platform is an essential document;a blueprint that envelops & embraces the party’s values,principles, plans, proposals & priorities. All we know about 2020 Republicans: they completely support the 45th president & his agenda even tho he has been impeached & removed by voters.
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020.This part is called: 🇺🇸 Securing our Competitive Edge/Defense Spending
Only one party will accelerate defense transformation in a responsible,ethical way,while restoring stability, predictability, & fiscal discipline in defense spending.1/12
#Democrats believe the United States military should be the best-trained, best-equipped, and most effective fighting force in the world. 2/12 #USMilitary
Ending the forever wars, reducing the enormous stress on our forces, and rationalizing our global military footprint are essential prerequisites to securing our competitive edge—but they’re not enough.3/12 #DemPartyPlatform#EndlessWar
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸Transforming Our Armed Forces for the 21st century🇺🇸Only one party understands that it’s time to bring nearly two decades of unceasing conflict to an end and transform our Armed Forces for the future. 1/10
#Democrats believe our military is—and must be—the most effective fighting force in the world.
To keep it that way, we need to bring our forever wars to a responsible end, 2/10 #DemPartyPlatform#EndForeverWar
#Democrats know we must rationalize our defense budget, invest in the forces & technologies of the future, repair civil-military relations, and strengthen our covenant with service members, veterans, and military families. 3/10 #DemPartyPlatform#Military#CivilMilitaryRelations
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: 🇺🇸Foreign Assistance and Development 🇺🇸Only one party understands that foreign assistance and development programs are powerful tools for promoting American and global, security and prosperity. 1/12
With less than one percent of its annual budget, the United States gets an extraordinary return on its investments in the prevention and alleviation of poverty, hunger, disease, and conflict, 3/12 #DemPartyPlatform#ForeignAssistance#AmericanLeadership
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called:
Revitalizing American Diplomacy/Americans deserve better. Only one party will revitalize American diplomacy to ensure that the U.S.remains the world’s pivotal power and a principled force for peace and prosperity 1/11
#Democrats will revitalize American diplomacy to ensure that the United States remains the world’s pivotal power and a principled force for peace and prosperity.2/11 #DemPartyPlatform#AmericanDiplomacy
The United States should be at the head of the table whenever the safety and well-being of Americans is at stake, working in common cause with our allies and partners. 3/11 #DemPartyPlatform#AmericanDiplomacy