• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I get that the military is a heavily conservative organization, but I feel like they’d be surprised that the military wouldn’t just let them walk into bases and take orders from them

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      10 months ago

      It turns out that the military isn’t actually as right-wing as everyone thought because, unlike the police, when push comes to shove, they will defend the country. You can’t count on the police to do the same. You hear lots of moaning and complaining about politics but military members WILL follow their leadership and their leadership will support the country.

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      10 months ago

      Down in the lower enlisted ranks, the politics are as diverse as civilian society. Sometimes even more diverse, since you have people from all over the nation forced to work together, sometimes for the first time in their lives. And in a possible conflict, they are going to have to depend on each other for survival. Politics, race and everything else divisive tends to get put aside.