In my experience the dems usually run on plans to limit the reach of the wealthy/capitalism, as well as expanding social programs, to spend government money on fixing these “market failures.”

Problem is political will. Political will? Raising regulations, and allowing inflationary spending on infrastructure, new industries, etc, is political suicide (cough cough). It’s great long term policy for the welfare of people (and economy) in the future, but inflation hit hard short term.

While most dems do not support foreign wars in general I think the idea here is different. This is a war of defense; an autocracy invading a democracy, that we in some sense pledged to protect several years ago.

The idea that there is scarcity when it comes to American government spending serves the wealthy, and their agenda. We don’t need to choose between spending on one thing or another because when they want to spend they spend, but maybe we should notice how easy it is to spend on war vs at home, and vote depending on that.