"Welcome To The Brave, New, Military"
By John Wilder
"The primary factor in the success of any military organization is the quality of the people who run it and lead it. Over the course of only five years, the level of trust in the United States military has dropped from 70% to less than half. If the military was composed entirely women, I guess they could get divorced again and get the other half.
Why? There are multiple reasons. The first is that the Right has generally been more supportive of the military. This was because the commies hated the military in the 1960s because it was stopping the worldwide spread of communism. This resulted in a visceral and continual hate of the Left for all things .mil. And, not everyone hates all of the Leftists. Heck, I haven’t met all of them yet.
With an all-volunteer force after the draft ended, the sorting primarily drew two types of people – those that wanted to serve with honor and those that didn’t have any other place to go. The sorting made a military that was strongly but not uniformly on the Right – 36% of post 9/11 vets are on the Right per a 2012 Pew® survey, and just 21% on the Left.
That leaves a big chunk in the middle, but is considerably more Right than society as a whole – at that time 34% of the general public described themselves as Democrats and 23% Republican. The military has been (at least in America) a place where the service was apolitical, but the sense was on the Right.
In 2018 the numbers had gotten even larger, according to the Military Times® 45% of troops supported Republicans, and 28% supported Democrats. In a 2015 survey from the Washington Post©, the Marines and the Air Force were apparently significantly more on the Right (at that time) than the Army or Navy.
I’m thinking all that is changing, and rapidly. Weirdly, the more competent a person is, the more they tend to have Right-leaning views. The fewer mental illnesses? Again, the more Right-leaning. And you’d have to be both crazy and incompetent to join the military in 2023.
Let me explain... I recall a quote from the late actor Ron Silver when he was at the Clinton inauguration back in 1992. He saw the jets flying over and his visceral reaction was anger. He hated the military. But, he said, “I realized that those were our jets now." ”When the Left says “Our Democracy” they mean just that, “Ours” as in it belongs to the Left. Any outcome that doesn’t favor Leftists isn’t democracy by their definition.
I took The Boy on a tour of several colleges, including one of the academies. I think he had the chops to get in and succeed. He looked around and decided to go to Midwestia State. The scholarship was pretty good, but he was vaguely concerned about the academy. He didn’t explain why. After the aftermath of COVID where students were being kicked out of the academies if they didn’t have the proper vaccination, well, I could see he made the right choice. I’ve also seen briefing papers, PowerPoints®, and pictures that make it clear that .mil is now becoming thoroughly woke.
When the Right is in charge, the military is what it is meant for: a tool to be used in war to kill people and break things, or help in extraordinary crisis like a hurricane or tsunami. To the Right, the military not meant to be a social conditioning program to spout propaganda to the American people or the soldiers themselves. Why do you think the Obama administration made it a point to purge hundreds of senior officers? Because it was a fashion show?
But the primary purpose of the military to the Left is the same as the purpose of anything to the Left. Just like “Our” Democracy has nothing to do with you or me, the major mission of any FedGov body is to follow the ideology of the Left, secure power for the Left, and indoctrinate for the Left.
We’ve seen that with the absurdity of the gymnastics the FBI® and the DOJ™ have been doing to keep Hunter Biden out of the slammer for things that would put mere mortals like us into a Federal penitentiary for years, their working to control what ideas you can see, and their unswerving desire to disarm the public that they’re supposed to be serving.
But back to the military. Recruiting is down, only 75% of recruits can make it out of a basic training and the various services have started “pre-basic” to take marginal candidates and help them do things like get in moderately decent shape or pass the ASVAB. It’s the second part that’s scary – the last time FedGov lowered mental standards in the 1960s, they found that McNamara’s Morons they died at triple the rate of qualified soldiers, and took many of their fellow soldiers with them.
Forrest Gump wasn’t entirely fictional, but in reality he was the one who generally got Lt. Dan blown up.
80% of people who sign up for the armed forces are from families that have members who served in the armed forces. Those same relatives are now telling the kids to not sign up. They’re not. Despite more than doubling the pool of recruits by resetting the moral, mental, physical, and virtue requirements for admission to “breathing” because the numbers are collapsing. It will get worse from here.
The systems and wonder weapons that the United States has collectively bet on are complicated. They require tough, strong, motivated troops to use them properly and they have to work together – it’s not a game of Call of Warcraft™ or Grand Theft Duty©.
As our Navy ships run into each other and kill sailors because, seriously, the female officer wasn’t on speaking terms with another female aboard the urine and trash-bottle filled command center. I’m not making this up (LINK). “Well she needs to apologize first.” Thankfully, we’ll never need a functioning military and can just get by with an indoctrination and jobs program. Wait, did someone in Rome say that, too?"
Dumbed down, feminized, woke...
OMG, the Russians and Chinese are laughing their asses off at us...
- CP, Veteran, MOS 0311
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