Trump May Not Even Show Up To His Own Military Parade
The fact is that the military is not 100% pro-Trump, loyal though they are to the Constitution and the Republic.
The American military tends to reflect the population at large, with some interesting differences. Twenty percent of the officers self-identify as liberal or Democrat. For enlisteds, that number is over 45%.
Even conservatives have problems with the Trump presidency. You can see that in the Congress, both the House and the Senate. And it is reflected in the military, also.
Incidentally, right now, I am reading My Share of the Task by Gen. Stanley McChrystal. His father was also a general. His mother was a political liberal. It must have been an intellectually vibrant dinner table.
The American military tends to reflect the population at large, with some interesting differences. Twenty percent of the officers self-identify as liberal or Democrat. For enlisteds, that number is over 45%.
Even conservatives have problems with the Trump presidency. You can see that in the Congress, both the House and the Senate. And it is reflected in the military, also.
Incidentally, right now, I am reading My Share of the Task by Gen. Stanley McChrystal. His father was also a general. His mother was a political liberal. It must have been an intellectually vibrant dinner table.
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I think I remember you from when I was walking through Penn Station coming home from Vietnam in 1973 and being spit at.
Trump is neither an establishment Republican nor a moderate Democrat, but a pragmatist (and I know how much the purists in this forum despise that term) and a capitalist. He understands that a sustaining welfare socialist state is an oxymoron, even though he appreciates the morality of the goals behind the concept. He's a firm believer in a society that can sustain itself and provide enough opportunity for all those willing to expend the effort to succeed. He also understands that the deterioration of the federal bureaucracies serves our people poorly, and that government needs a shakeup. To accomplish that goal, he needs a more cohesive citizenry, which is a real task, given the extreme divisiveness engendered by past administrations. Some degree of nationalist spirit can be unifying, and a military parade is part of that, as much as it may anger those with a globalist mindset.
I blocked it before reading the article, but could you be so kind as to not post links to annoying sites that intrude on the peace and quiet of a household?
;^)
Ignoring the reality of your candidate's actions to use and pay a foreign agent in coordination with the FBI and DOJ to create a phony dossier used to spy on the Trump Campaign and then causing the first year of his presidency to be investigated
With phony charges.
If that defines an objectivist
or a libertarian or a conservative . I want no part of it. I am anti-corrupt establishment. But I do know that you do not reflect an objectivist because an objectivist would never confuse Sarah Sanders with an evil hag!!
"They don't care. Neither does President Trump. He is only marketing what people want to buy, pandering to the crowds."
No President has suffered so much indignation, rudeness and virulent lies and smears you are anything but objective.
It is philosophical principle that separates Objectivists from libertarians and conservatives. So, it is important here to write about that. Even when libertarians and conservatives share our values, as in their easy support for unregulated markets, they tend to do so without the proper (strong) philosophical foundations. That is why they fail to persuade people the way that Ayn Rand's works do. Reality works.
As far as President Trump is concerned, he is not even a conservative. He was always a Democrat. He sells Americanism the way a fast food drive through now sells salads where before they sold hamburgers. They don't care. Neither does President Trump. He is only marketing what people want to buy, pandering to the crowds.
The recent tariffs should be a bellwether. They will not come from Congress, but from executive orders. How does that conform to your view of the Constitution?
You can find Veteran's Day parade in Washington DC here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSuvB...
and a Memorial Day parade in Washington DC here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JAN6...
You can spend hours on YouTube watching parades.
President Trump's "call" for these events was just a tweet for attention. He is a master of that.
you have not posted anything critical about Obama or the evil hag. Why do you ignore the subversion of the constitution that you took an oath to uphold https://www.cato.org/publications/com... . Illinois will have to spend 5 to 6 times JUST for road access to Obamas Museum than what a parade will cost. A parade to honor and to celebrate our past as well as current military on the 100th anniversary of WW1's end.. With regard to the nonsense of having to work on a holiday. Get a clue the military is not a job it is a voluntary service that is well rewarded for the lifers in benefits.
" Please please tell us all how obama is such an angel and scandal free? How he stopped all these horrible things from happening in the world? Wait what? We're not talking about obama? Well now that's not fair. Didn't he put all of terrorism on the run? Nope that was for reelection. It all grew. Gun control? Nope. Benghazi? Made it up. Authorized Uranium? Not Russian collusion though right? Email scandal? Never happened? Except he actually did because he sent emails to it more than a few times. Pushed for small arms treaty to? We have To Give Up Freedoms To The America Loving UN To Be More Free And Safer? How was that supposed to work again? Oh yeah there were a few words left off of the end. Free And Safer just not for Americans Living In America!!! I.R.S. scandal? Never happened? Obamacare? Never lied? Iran Deal? Hezbollah? Oops. Fast &Furious? Oops. No School Shootings? Lied? No? A Scandal Free Presidency??? Just like society dictates whether you have a penis or a vagina instead of Biology!!! I guess we should start asking Merriam Webster and Dictionary .com to start replacing and erasing definitions and words to make people happy instead of just living in the real world and not the one in their heads."
Michael " Chris" Byrnes.
" I'm getting tired of the dividers focusing on bashing a president who for the first time in many decades is trying to bring us together. Get off the damn band wagon and roll up your sleeves. He's not your favorite POTUS, but he's doing a whole lot better than the last four. We are a year and two months into this presidency and so far I'm liking where we are going. He knows how to get things done, but along the way he's ticked off a lot of folks. Reminds me of butchering hogs; their squealing until they take their last breath. However, in the end we are MOSTLY pointed in the correct direction. Trump is no "Mr. Nice Guy", but he's pretty much sticking to what he said he'd do during his campaign. He's not always right, but we've seen our share of POTUS's who have been dead wrong throughout their entire presidencies, yet all they get are accolades. Is a parade a waste of time and money? I don't know! Maybe if that parade was made of up two or three million veterans and active duty personnel who actually want to be there would that change your mind? So, enough already.
USN Vet 1962-1968."
Gary Tandberg
But, that moment passed... and the President is on to the next thing...