Reply #28: In my opinion, off.

[K-W]

Militaries are by nature extremely authoritarian. This in itself makes soldiers, especially career soldier conservative, but that doesnt neccessarily make them republican, especially not neo-republican, that has been drilled in them with propaganda.

Our military is run by the pentagon which has been taken over by the defense industry and thier conservative and neo-conservative allies.

My girlfriend's ex was in the military while she was in college, they told him repeatedly that college was full of gays and lesbians and that she was going to cheat on him with girls. He was a liberal when he went in the army and now he is a reactionary republican. All they watch is fox news and thier information is controlled by the pentagon. They are trained to be extremely nationalistic and trained to hate and kill whoever is considered the enemy.

It is, in a very real sense, a facist institution.

The Vietnam war makes military people conservative not because of Lyndon Johnson, but because people in the military refuse to believe that we werent able to win that war and also refuse to believe it was a horrific war crime. The mythology offered up by the reactionary conservatives that it was in fact the liberals, media and intellectuals is very tempting to people who are tought to think our military is wholly good.