” my premise is that if politics is more important to an individual than their love and fidelity to this country they should not serve.”
Simple unproven assumptions and opinion.
“Its a simple concept that simple grunts like me, my father and my grandfather and millions of others before were able to understand and nothing has changed to make the concept suddenly incomprehensible.”
Well, this simple grunt would not have followed unlawful orders by Ronald Reagan, a man I respected deeply.