Most democrat activist types despise the military.
Bill Clinton said he, "loathed the military".
I went to high school with a real leftist activist who many time spat out the words, "we should kill everyone in the military, then there would be no more wars".
These folks really hate us.
He is now retired from being the engineer for Vermont Public TV or radio, I forget which.
He’d get along well with head Marxist editor I knew at south carolina ETV. She retired or was made to a few years back.