My daughter is one of them. I know how pissed she is over this.
This was the inevitible conclusion. You can track the leftward shift since Reagan in the GOP governance/votes. Eventually they had to come out of the closet. After Mitt, they figured that people would have to go along. They counted on it. Because they have voted ‘progressively” in that direction for 30 years as a whole.
But you are right. Vets don’t think like pols. this was a hell of a wakeup. Hopefully the civ world follows their lead.
Civilians never follow vets.
They do not understand them, nor the military, nor the role of the military.
In our government, the pols work for the people, and the military works under the direction of the pols/the congress, who holds a check on the CIC/the pres.
that’s the order, and the military doesn’t waver from that.
The military has no union representation, just a random wife or vet who is so busy he’s not really a great articulator, though his heart is in the right place.
But the military cannot fight for rights. They don’t need to, they’re all well articulated and documented, like their retirement pay.
They are the workers, the civilians are the boss of the congress.
It is, and don’t doubt this, it is the civilians who are doing this by allowing the congress to do it. The fact is that the congress works for the civilians, no matter how corrupted that contract, or the constitution, has been allowed by the civilians to become.
People know this, they are just poorly educated on it, but they just have an instinct for it.
The military absolutely depends on the American public to take care of them and to do so by electing just leaders.
The Constitution states that one of the few jobs of government is to provide protection of the constitution from enemies. Our military, among others, does that. But so do the American people, they’ve just forgotten it.
but the people neglect and abuse the military, and they are doing so now. They are not aware of it. They depend on the media for civic education and instruction, against all evidence that the media has no idea what the Constitution or the role of govt or the military are.
But the military will never, naturally, be looked on as political leaders.
The pundits and the public will allow the congress to steal promised under contract money from war vets and their widows without a loss of a minute of sleep.
And the military will be sad over it, not the loss of money but the loss of trust that will take a miracle to repair.