We have a volunteer-contract system that tends to harvest more conservatives *in the Marine Corps and Army* compared to non-white/non-conservative members. Sure other groups belong to both the USMC & US Army, but they are far and away eclipsed by the number of white conservatives serving specifically in *combat branch* jobs. If liberals …
We have a volunteer-contract system that tends to harvest more conservatives *in the Marine Corps and Army* compared to non-white/non-conservative members. Sure other groups belong to both the USMC & US Army, but they are far and away eclipsed by the number of white conservatives serving specifically in *combat branch* jobs. If liberals joined the military more--especially as pre-college enlisted members--things wouldn't look this way. But because liberals loath violence in general, they are eclipsed by their conservative neighbors in terms of who is more capable of coordinated violence as a group. If American liberals don't train with firearms, continue to allow the violent branches of government to be occupied by hardcore conservatives, and don't address either of these two rates of change, then it's going to be *really* easy for conservative authoritarians to rise to power and not give it up here. Remember, the paid volunteers you rely on to keep bad actors in check don't always share the same viewpoints as you do--see the FBI/DHS downplaying the Jan 6 rally and over-reacting to Antifa--and that the rule of law is only as strong as the dudes with guns willing to enforce it. This ain't your daddy's American electorate from the decadent 90's.
"We all went off to college to fuck each other and do drugs in the 2000's, how is it that the government we decided not to care much about suddenly became overrun with Trump conservatives you guys????" - Surprised liberals today
We have a volunteer-contract system that tends to harvest more conservatives *in the Marine Corps and Army* compared to non-white/non-conservative members. Sure other groups belong to both the USMC & US Army, but they are far and away eclipsed by the number of white conservatives serving specifically in *combat branch* jobs. If liberals joined the military more--especially as pre-college enlisted members--things wouldn't look this way. But because liberals loath violence in general, they are eclipsed by their conservative neighbors in terms of who is more capable of coordinated violence as a group. If American liberals don't train with firearms, continue to allow the violent branches of government to be occupied by hardcore conservatives, and don't address either of these two rates of change, then it's going to be *really* easy for conservative authoritarians to rise to power and not give it up here. Remember, the paid volunteers you rely on to keep bad actors in check don't always share the same viewpoints as you do--see the FBI/DHS downplaying the Jan 6 rally and over-reacting to Antifa--and that the rule of law is only as strong as the dudes with guns willing to enforce it. This ain't your daddy's American electorate from the decadent 90's.
"We all went off to college to fuck each other and do drugs in the 2000's, how is it that the government we decided not to care much about suddenly became overrun with Trump conservatives you guys????" - Surprised liberals today