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In reply to the discussion: Hey, Does Anyone Else Think We Kinda Respect the Military Too Much Maybe? [View all]Bonobo
(29,257 posts)8. Yeah, and I am tired of hearing Rachel Maddow crow about them.
I think at one point, some on what passes for the "left" decided it would be good politically to take away some of the military vote from the right by waving flags.
But in doing so, they lost sight of the fact that they were anti-war, anti-military and joined the ranks of the rest of the flag-sucking, brainwashed population.
It is dangerous. It is a necessary step on the road to fascism. No, it itself is NOT fascism, but fascism REQUIRES a blind worship of the military in order to hope to be successful.
The military should instead by viewed with more skepticism and distrust IMO.
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Hey, Does Anyone Else Think We Kinda Respect the Military Too Much Maybe? [View all]
Great Caesars Ghost
Dec 2012
OP
I REALLY did not like what Stone did, but they should NOT have been fired. That's pretty much
patrice
Dec 2012
#1
That woman lost her job because she worked for a place that fires people regularly.
MADem
Dec 2012
#26
You are right. That also explains the rather unusual attack upon her & her friend.
patrice
Dec 2012
#42
The irony is that this placed is associated with a "hoity toity" private school that caters to
MADem
Dec 2012
#44
I worked for something like that for a couple of years. Our main job was to see to it that our
patrice
Dec 2012
#49
Absolutely. We don't respect our sailors and soldiers at all, but we worship the military,
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#6
Exactly. People over expensive weapons. Serve our Veterans after they have served, we don't
bluestate10
Dec 2012
#46
Exactly. How we treat them is another in a long line of national embarrassments.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#48
No. Especially considering that for all intents and purposes, we live in a Police State.
DeSwiss
Dec 2012
#10
Yep, it has become a 'soft' police state and on its way with just the right mix of TPTB to
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#31
There's a big difference between the military machine-which is a part of the corporations
hobbit709
Dec 2012
#13
Extremely well said! And in our new culture of STUPID many just don't care to see
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#32
Common to every authoritarian militaristic regime in modern history. Any of those articles you
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#47
Feeding the war machine and respecting those who serve are two different things.
AngryOldDem
Dec 2012
#17
Of course, and the sign didn't say the crap may collapse on you if you sing LOL. Glad nothing
lonestarnot
Dec 2012
#61
My one gripe is the Military has become a huge money maker in this country and abroad. And often
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#29
I don't. No special status, respect or automatic hero tag as far as I'm concerned.
bowens43
Dec 2012
#34
It's a bogus and dangerous way for the left to find common cause w. the right.
Smarmie Doofus
Dec 2012
#36
My father and my uncle and their wives are buried at Arlington. The young woman
southernyankeebelle
Dec 2012
#51