RE: Anonymous Poll on political ideology
August 25, 2017 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2017 at 4:24 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 25, 2017 at 3:52 pm)shadow Wrote:(August 25, 2017 at 3:22 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: To prevent creeping militarization of the civilian administration, as is occurring within Trump's administration.
Oh, I've never heard of this issue before. What's the risk of having the administration more militarized: isn't the military an arm of the government anyways?
A country that prize democracy and liberty should never look to the military control of the civil administration as a solution to poor civil administration. If it does it would be but a short step to military dictatorship, and furthermore that step would almost invariably be taken in relatively short amount of time.
We live in a country where roughly 30-40% of the people, in the ironic name of liberty, love their guns, their private enrichment, and hate the other side of the a narrow political divide with far greater passion than they would ever have for defending laws that are not seen to directly affect themselves but clearly protect the basic civil liberty of the rest of their countrymen. The condition in this country IMHO far more favorable to a takeover by a rightwimg military dictatorship than most people would credit.
