[Zionist Conspirator]

The Brazilian Left wants to dissolve the armed forces and redistribute their weapons to the people. The American Left wants to redistribute the people's weapons to the armed forces.

Are we sure these two cases represent the same ideology?

[2ndDivisionVet]

I think our left is more fascist/Nazi than the South American, which skews Maoist.

[Ohioan]

You may be focused on the wrong variable. In Latin America, the Armies tend to intervene when the politicians move so far to the Left as to endanger the stability of the State. Obama has been removing Officers from our Military, who might sense a similar duty.