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What's most problematic with America is the need for everything to be a black and white issue. Can it be that both sides have a point in this? Military worship
by fortythirteen 9y ago
What's most problematic with America is the need for everything to be a black and white issue. Can it be that both sides have a point in this?
Military worship is pretty ridiculous and the mega advertising budgets for an "all volunteer" military turn public events into spectacles of propaganda.
But when multiple generations of post-WWII western civilians have lived extremely cushioned lives, when compared to the other 2/3 of the world, a lack of understanding of the sheer sacrifice of wartime military service is inevitable. There's a reason that the vast majority of active-duty and veterans lean right wing, and it's not because of "lack of education" as the more snooty people on the left would have us believe.
- dEnigma 9y agoSo what is the reason?
- fortythirteen 9y agoOne is the social leftovers of a political left that literally spit on veterans forty years ago. There may no longer be spitting, but many times the disdain for military is still palpable. Another is that the military is a large group of people who have seen the manifest benefits of the Second Amendment, in that they have witnessed what happens in countries where only a small portion of the population are allowed to arm themselves. Since much, if not most of the the American left is adamantly anti-2A, backed by fear-mongering, left-leaning journalists who are comically uninformed about firearms, it makes for a huge political rift.
- trowawee 9y agoThere is no documented evidence[1] that any veterans were spit on. This is a pernicious myth. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/opinion/myth-spitting-vietnam-protester.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/opinion/myth-spitting-vie...