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Trump Announces Press Conference to Prove Election Was Stolen – Rolling Stone
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My concern is that your general army grunt is not a great thinker and tends to be quite pro-Trump to begin with. How are they going to act if they think that they have been asked to oppress him?
This is why right wing ideology needs to be targeted as soon as it appears because it's like a disease that infects weak-minded people.
Think about the capital riots and how some of the police officers were accused of basically letting the rioters in...
I think this article would be a good read: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/11/05/what-happened-members-of-military-accused-of-storming-capitol-january-6.html
I guess what I'll say is, that's a valid concern, but they've been working on it. Keep in mind, there may have been a lot of folks compelled to go, but there were a lot more that had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Kind of related, there may have been police there, but police officers as a whole have gotten the job done investigating and processing Trump.
Based on my experience with the navy, it seemed like all the lowest rungs of the ladder are 18 year olds who barely care about their own jobs, let alone politics. You'd see fox news in the chiefs mess but surprisingly little demagoguery below e-3.