Has the Military Lost Middle America? By Victor Davis Hanson

[mystery-ak]

Has the Military Lost Middle America?
The military is not yet a revolutionary people’s army overseen by commissars. But it is getting there.
By Victor Davis Hanson
June 30, 2021

Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender. 

Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically “overrepresented” in offering the ultimate sacrifice to their country. 

When generals, active and retired, have become controversial, usually conservative America could be counted on to stick with them. 

Flyover country supported marquee officers such as Gen. Michael Hayden, Gen. James Mattis, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Gen. David Petraeus, and a host of others, whether on active duty or in retirement, when the media went after them for alleged unethical conduct, or financial improprieties, or spats with the Obama Administration that prompted resignations, or left-wing accusations of using undue force or even hiding “torture.” 

When the Left railed in Congress about the “revolving door” of generals and admirals leaving the Pentagon to use their past expertise to land lucrative board memberships with corporate defense contractors, Middle America, rightly or wrongly, mostly yawned. 

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https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/30/has-the-military-lost-middle-america/

[Fishrrman]

I was going to post this, but you got there first!

More excerpts:
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The Pentagon’s current and past top echelon is seen as politically weaponized—and both careerist and opportunist. Generals and admirals are currently scanning enlistments for mythical white supremacists, in fear of left-wing pressure following the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. These military officials apparently have no commensurate concern about whether there are Antifa-affiliated service members with records of past violence.
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The military’s alienation of Middle America could not happen at a worse time. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea watch in glee at our self-created discord, which threatens to tear apart the most lethal military in the world.

The military is not yet a revolutionary people’s army overseen by commissars. But it is getting there with politicized agendas that split the country in half and abandon the military’s traditional role of unifying in common purpose to defend America.

[skeeter]

If/when America has its next major need for the military the White Rage meme will fly out the window in the blink of an eye to be replaced by patriotic appeals to parents in flyover country to offer up their kids as cannon fodder.

Which, were I a young parent at that time, I would have great difficulty taking seriously.