Posted on 01/12/2022 4:59:06 PM PST by blam
No institution is exempt from the American public’s growing distrust of the federal government. Even the military, which has traditionally enjoyed broad support from Americans of all political stripes, is now seeing its otherwise pristine image take a hit.
According to a survey the Ronald Reagan Institute recently published, trust in the military has plummeted precipitously. Perpetual wars and the ongoing “woke” experimentation taking place within the military have made the public significantly jaded about the military. Ironically, the mainstream Right has grown more hostile toward it.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has made it part of his routine to ridicule the American military’s latest efforts to implement culturally leftist policies. Other right-wing pundits have piled on in lambasting America’s woke military, showcasing a remarkable decline in the American Right’s trust in America’s armed forces.
Such scenarios would have been almost unheard of in the early aughts. The Bush era was a time when it was common to see conservatives donning decals and bumper stickers that read “If You Can’t Stand Behind Our Troops Feel Free to Stand in Front of Them.”
Those sentiments have completely reversed in the era of the “Great Awokening,” when virtually all entities—public and private—have been enveloped by the diversity, inclusion, and equity mania. As a result, entities like big business and the military, which the American Right usually holds in high esteem, are now the objects of ridicule and derision.
If there is one thing the current political realignment has taught us, it is that political coalitions are not as permanent as we think. Similar trends are playing out in real time. The liberal Left is defending the intelligence community and even pushing their narratives in various regime change efforts abroad. This lies in stark contrast to the Vietnam War–era Left, which vociferously called out the intelligence community and broader military apparatus. The times sure have changed.
Some people may lament this, but the US military has functioned as a blunt instrument for bellicose politicians and parasitic interest groups such as defense contractors. With few exceptions, the tasks the military has carried out in the past century have precious little to do with defense.
If the Right were serious about effecting change and not assuming its predictable role as a false opposition to the Left, it would start by redirecting its attention toward state defense forces and militias. These defense bodies serve a useful function and defend a given state’s territory. State governments like Florida and Oklahoma are already moving in their own directions to reassert the power of state defense units.
This is a more worthwhile endeavor than the present military worship. After all, we’re dealing with an American state that is openly embracing the culturally radical leftist fads such as Black Lives Matter, which will be invariably exported abroad—through soft- and hard-power means—due to the missionary nature of American foreign policy.
Truth be told, the road to bringing about a modicum of sanity to our present system will not be linear, and it will be filled with rough patches along the way. It will ultimately require people to be willing to part ways with institutions they previously held in high esteem.
One could make the case that the military had a legitimate function in previous periods of American history marked by more restrained governance, but those eras have long passed. Now the military is a blunt instrument used to realize the geopolitical fantasies of a parasitic foreign policy class that faces little to no consequences for its misdeeds. As if the military’s role in serving as a battering ram for a decadent ruling class weren’t enough, its becoming a laboratory for woke social experiments should make any sane person strongly reconsider their blind attachment to the armed forces.
The military’s woke drift is as tragic farcical as it gets, but there’s always a silver lining. People are now realizing that there’s nothing special about the military. In fact, it can be just as vulnerable to the cultural blight that’s become rampant throughout the West. Plus, the military’s degradation should disabuse people of the wrongheaded idea that there will be a return to “normal.”
To move forward and avoid falling into the proverbial kitchen of civilizational decline, sacred cows must be slaughtered. The military will be one of those golden calves that must be put out to pasture.
Good article.
Just because the sergeant major of the Marine Corps is spewing woke, leftist crap doesn’t mean that I’ve lost confidence in the Marine Corps 0311s. The weenie, woke sergeant major can be taken out in a blanket party at any time.
The deconstruction is by design. The globalist oligarchy running the demon rat politicians and some republicants too is purposely destroying America so they can have free sailing doing their great reset. EVIL is now in charge of the globe. Get ready for the great snatching away followed by the big lie.
Losing? When did America have any faith in WOKE anything?
The liberal Left is defending the intelligence community and even pushing their narratives in various regime change efforts abroad. This lies in stark contrast to the Vietnam War–era Left, which vociferously called out the intelligence community and broader military apparatus. The times sure have changed.
***Back then it was rightwingtards trying to impose their viewpoints on various nascent republics across the world. Now, they had good reason to fight communism. But they generally tried to implement American style federalism which most countries were not ready for, so they fell back into supporting rightwing dictatorships.
The purging of the officer ranks, going on since Clinton, is complete. The new regime is now using every possible woke line of attack available to warp speed the purging of the enlisted ranks. This will not end well.
Yeah that sounds about like what is happening
Anyone still wondering which side the military will be on in CW2?
Finally?
Then again I actually would put a lot of faith in a pack of hard chargers “taking care of business” if there was a field situation that required correct actions and they were obviously not matching up with orders from some pinko 1LT or whatever.
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A-A-A-aaaand we veer comfortably back into crank territory just to prove our bona fides as economic obsessives. (*WHEW!*) Musta been a scary minute there when you were making a good observation and NOT sounding as inside-nerdy as a Communist Party publication--which for all I know is false opposition to you guys.
The extremes do meet in the middle, don't they?
I would like to agree with you, however I feel we are beyond that point now.
The Army is throwing out $50K recruiting bonuses, it would appear that a lot of those evil people from flyover country are choosing not to join.
I would not recommend the military to any young person now, unless of course they are woke, then they will be right at home.
Have to agree. I've met some Green Berets in training--talk about tip of the spear. They won't be attacking Florida or Georgia.
Here’s a list of what the Chinese added to their Fleet in 2021:
- 2 Type 075 Helicopter Carriers
- 3 Type 055 Destroyers
- 7 Type 052D Destroyers
- 9 Corvettes Type 056A and
- 1 Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) Type 094
The US Navy:
- 1 DDG (USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) )
- 2 LCS (USS Oakland (LCS 24) and USS Mobile (LCS 26) )
This alone should get every Flag Officer involved in shipbuilding fired. They can’t manage their primary duties, but they’re sure scrubbing the social media posting of all active duty. They are the enemy within.
“I would like to agree with you, however I feel we are beyond that point now.”
Understand your frustration. People need to stop reading and listening to the propaganda from the media. Turn off the TV and FR. Go to the American Legion and VFW and talk to the guys there. You’ll find a different perspective.
“Even the military, which has traditionally enjoyed broad support from Americans of all political stripes”
Tell that to the fighters who were called ‘Baby Killers’ by the Hippies of the 1960s and 1970s, one of them being John Kerry.
The Hippies presently in power.
The military is now nothing more than civil service…a jobs program. I’m not sure what their mission is anymore but it’s not defending the country.
“The Hippies presently in power.”
Very true. They may have been into mind-altering drugs, but they also were Communists who wanted to ‘change society’ and they were SMART, very smart...as they are in power, with now 33% of the country supporting them.
I have more confidence in the armed citizens.
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