"I want you! To fight for my MIC interests. And if you won't volunteer, I'll draft you."
Yeah. That's the ticket.
Posted on 07/31/2023 12:34:11 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Americans are now less likely to express “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the U.S. military, with a noticeable decline that has persisted for the past five years. The latest numbers are from a June 1-22 Gallup poll that also captured record lows in public confidence in several public institutions.
At 60%, confidence in the military was last this low in 1997, and it hasn’t been lower since 1988, when 58% were confident. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s -- during the Cold War and amid threats to U.S. power, including the Iran hostage crisis -- between 50% and 58% of Americans were confident in the military. Confidence generally improved during Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s. It then surged after the Gulf War victory (to a record-high 85% in 1991) and again after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Confidence generally held above 70% for the next two decades, until dipping to 69% in 2021 and declining further since then, following the poorly executed exit from Afghanistan.
Throughout nearly all of the past 48 years, Republicans have been the most likely to express confidence in the military, and they remain so today -- but the rate has declined by over 20 percentage points in three years, from 91% to 68%.
Independents’ confidence has dropped nearly as much -- by 13 points, from 68% to 55% -- and now independents have less confidence than Democrats do. While Democrats’ confidence rating did rise after President Joe Biden assumed office, those gains have disappeared in the past year.
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"I want you! To fight for my MIC interests. And if you won't volunteer, I'll draft you."
Yeah. That's the ticket.
Look on the positive side. Our military has the best diversity training program in the world, and our roster of Trannie officers are second to none.
It starts with Admiral Rachael Levine”
A male officer of the military who reports for duty while wearing eye shadow and mascara, a pleated skirt and sensible women’s shoes.
Congress was working on defining the draft last month.
Per transgender stuff.
WW3 is in the works and so is a draft.
Over the the 4th, a Navy destroyer was docked not too far from here.
We watched much of the crew ask they came ashore....fat, out of shape, pitful.
And the Commanders were not much better.
God help us WHEN we go to battle...it’s just a matter of time.
US 877 billion USD
More than China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, UK, Germany, France, South Korea, Japan and Ukraine combined.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison
What may be said is that ours is VERY, VERY expensive, all the while "Confidence in U.S. Military Lowest in Over Two Decades."
Trump is going to have a tough time getting us back to a number one military.
Something is seriously wrong with a basic statement. Not this low since 1988?? My a**, 1988. 1988 was the end of the Reagan years and the military was riding high then. More like 1975 perhaps.
Keep in mind Gallup always writes and publishes it’s poll results in a way to be most useful to Socialist Leftist shills, even when the results are bad for them.
I can’t find the FR article on the Navy’s Digital Ambassador - it was the Navy celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride month - these pictures were taken from a U.S. Navy Facebook page (links not working at the moment) - if anyone has a link to the FR article - thanks in advance
After the fiasco of the Afghanistan withdrawal, and the inability to organize artillery ammunition production after 18 months, it should be “zero confidence”.
Their job is to fight and win. Instead they are being viewed as social experimentation stews with focus not even related to combat readiness or capabilities.
I found it - they’ve taken down the pics it seems - probably too embarrassed
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4168408/posts
Now it’s the right side’s turn to draft dodge.
They want volunteers to be on subs with perverts.
Good luck with that.
Good point!
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