I used to have respect for the military. They have sat by and watched the Klown for far too long at this point. A military coup in the US would not be good but the Klown is worse.
The military’s relationship to the public has changed so much over the years; when I was born there was a draft, then the military was scaled back. A contrived war in Iraq briefly drove the numbers up, and now that we’ve lost in Iraq & Afghanistan many people (and the military itself) no longer see any need for a large standing military. When people are having a hard time making ends meet, they see no point in a large workfare program (especially when the porous southern border is unprotected and drug violence has crossed into our country).
A friend who left in the mid 90s described it as an “armed Red Cross”; it couldn’t justify the massive cost.
“I used to have respect for the military. They have sat by and watched the Klown for far too long at this point. A military coup in the US would not be good but the Klown is worse.”
That’s because most of the field grade and almost all of the flag grade officers are political puppets.
There may be a few holdouts in the ranks who still adhere to “Duty, Honor, Country” but they have to keep a low profile, stay tight lipped and bend over like the rest of us in order to stay in.