RE: Is the US ripe for a coup?
October 20, 2017 at 3:50 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2017 at 4:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Perhaps...but, if we're discussing some sort of coup...you're gonna need more than the highest ranking officers to pull it off. US military culture just isn't conducive to the requirements of a coup.
Think it through, if you'r counting on corruption at the top, and some sort of automaton response beneath based on conditioning and indoctrination..then you can't really expect the automoton response to be one that's directly contradictory to our conditioning and indoctrination. You're going to have a hard time convincing a bunch of US military to overthrow the US government, no matter how well invested or well promoted you are.
I think we can all agree that there's some corruption in the service..high and low, but none of it expresses itself in that way.
Think it through, if you'r counting on corruption at the top, and some sort of automaton response beneath based on conditioning and indoctrination..then you can't really expect the automoton response to be one that's directly contradictory to our conditioning and indoctrination. You're going to have a hard time convincing a bunch of US military to overthrow the US government, no matter how well invested or well promoted you are.
I think we can all agree that there's some corruption in the service..high and low, but none of it expresses itself in that way.
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