Damn dems have been shitty for 50+ years. It is very frustrating to see people against our country and military. Even if you dont agree with the actions of the president and country, when we are committed you should support.
It's just crazy to me that they started a fucking unpopular war and then left all those South Vietnamese people holding the bag to be executed or sent to concentration camps out of spite.
From the perspective of the politicians who went against Ford on the matter, it's fair to say that by 1975 (two years after the Paris Peace Accords), the Vietnam War and anything related to it was political poison at the time. The story is a good example though of how Congress can hamstring the President, for better and for worse, in foreign policy matters even if promises and commitments were made to allies by previous administrations.
It was LBJ's war. All of those people had to pay the price and all of those soldiers had to die, both ARVN and Americans for no fucking reason.
All he wanted to do in 75 was send them enough money to sustain themselves to be able to at least pull through and not be completely conquered. America was getting out either way. They lost and by extension we lost because they ran out of money.
He only asked them for a billion dollars for emergency aid for those people.
Adjusted for inflation that's $6 billion today. They shut down our government because they wanted $405 billion for fucking obamacare. We spent 1.2 TRILLION on fucking welfare in 2025 alone.
They voted against the equivalent of $6 billion to keep men and WOMEN AND CHILDREN alive. Over a fucking war THEY got us involved in.
They didn't do it because we couldn't afford it, and they sure as hell didn't do it because it would have been a bad look and they were worried about being reelected. Leaving people whose country we completely fucked up the equivalent of a cup of coffee to the American budget to save lives and so that they could rebuild would be seen as humanitarian aid and I don't think anybody would have really cared, so long as we pulled our troops out. They did it to fuck over Ford and the Republicans. The only thing they care about is being vindictive. It's all they've ever cared about.
I say it all the time and I'll say it again, there is no amount of hate for the loony left that is sufficient.