RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
January 7, 2021 at 8:51 am
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2021 at 9:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 6, 2021 at 7:17 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(January 6, 2021 at 6:08 pm)Nomad Wrote: What's legal and what's possible are two different things, especially in a country as legally dysfunctional as the US is.
If Trump were even slightly more competent than he is he'd have been able to swing at least part of the military leadership to his side to be able to stage a coup, no matter what the law says. Remember the Air Force is fundagelical central at all ranks and the army is heavily riddled with people who'd gladly destroy the country to recreate the South.
Bold-mine
And what is this brilliant assessment based on?
Based on repeated assessments and actions taken that show a consistent bias toward evangelical christianity from the academy to active duty in every single branch of our armed forces. So much so that legal remedies were sought and taken and a national debate ensued with the christians themselves claiming that any restriction on their ability to proselytize in uniform was an infringement on their rights.
Today, they have christian warrior basic training on base, and just a few weeks back the pentagon released a new revision of RFRA that essentially obliterates separation of church and state in the service. A servicemember can no longer register an effective civil rights complaint to their superiors (assuming their superiors aren't the offender in the first place) because the service is not allowed to use "christian wont stop trying to push his beliefs on me" as the basis -for- a complaint or any corrective action.
Pushing their religion is a genuinely held belief, you see.
Anecdotally, the further back in time you served the less likely you would be to see the effects of this as it's a recent push - which isn't to say that they haven't always been there doing exactly this, just that it was a bit more difficult to get away with prior to resurgence of hard christian dominionism these last 20 years.
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