Though the Democrats have moved left, they maintain a headlock on the institutions, and the institutions are what the generals are loyal to even if the leaders of those institutions have morphed into rabidly anti-American aspiring dictators. To embrace Trump and populism is to repudiate the whole establishment hothouse that grew their power and prestige. They would be opposing themselves.
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The Democrats are
wargaming how to steal the 2020 election, and after Grandpa Badfinger selected
Lady Mac (Willie) Brown, their last best hope seems to be the military marching
in and removing Donald Trump from the White House after he wins and they refuse
to accept the election results. But will the military actually do the bidding
of the coterie of Marxist Muppet masters with their fingers, ironically, up
inside Joe Biden like he is a crusty, senile Kermit?
Which he is, except the real
Mr. Miss Piggy isn’t a manifestly mentally incompetent socialist Trojan Frog.
And don’t even get me started
on his veep, Botoxic K.
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Between the perma-coup
against the American people, the mainstream media’s myriad and shameless lies, and the Democrats’
election fraud agenda (including the Golden Ticket to anarchy that is mail-in
voting), it is absolutely clear that the Democrats will not accept Donald Trump’s impending
victory. It is also clear that their plan is to sow chaos when they
lose, with outright ballot box-stuffing, riots, and endless counts and
recounts, so that they can obscure Trump’s win enough to create a patina of
fake doubt about the result. Then they will rush into some Hawaiian courtroom
and get some Hawaiian judge to announce that the Delaware Basement Crustacean
won the election. The idea is to then have a deus ex militaria where somehow the establishment
gets reestablished forever at gunpoint. And the liberal elite is said
establishment.
But it’s not completely
crazy, unfortunately, to consider whether the military, or at least a portion
of it, would cooperate in a liberal attempt to seize power. Here’s the
troubling truth: the generals will absolutely fall in line with the liberal
elite.
“Wait,” the reader asks.
“Aren’t generals and majors and stuff conservative?”
Well, in temperament, yes.
But they are not conservative in terms of American politics. And for that
reason, it is entirely possible, if not likely, that many of them would take
the side of the leftist establishment if called upon to resolve a disputed
election instead of demurring to the politicians to decide the matter
themselves.
Wow.
Just writing that is scary. But these are scary times, and we are blessed with
what Instapundit Glenn
Reynolds tells Americans is “the worst ruling class in your history.” The
generals are absolutely a part of that failed caste.
The
generals – a term I’ll use to describe the majority of senior active duty
officers (Colonel/Captain O6 and up; note that reserve officers have a slightly
different perspective, being civilians most of the time) – are creatures of the
establishment. Yes, it is absolutely true that many of them showed great
courage in battle against foreign enemies and made great personal sacrifices.
It is also true that in the culture war they have been entirely AWOL. They are
terrified of crossing the establishment by doubting its preferred mores, and
that is why they accept every bizarre modern SJW trope regardless
of its effect on combat readiness. They will charge a jihadi with a
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Here, Trump and his populist
movement are agents of rapid and disruptive change. The military, in which
these generals grew up and which gives them their identities, is the least
disruptive institution in American society. The lengthy and laudable tradition
of civilian authority over the military, as well as the hierarchical nature of
the military itself, makes it instinctively against rapid, disruptive change.
Though the Democrats have
moved left, they maintain a headlock on the institutions, and the institutions
are what the generals are loyal to even if the leaders of those institutions
have morphed into rabidly anti-American aspiring dictators. To embrace Trump
and populism is to repudiate the whole establishment hothouse that grew their
power and prestige. They would be opposing themselves.
Look at CNN and see the endless parade
of fully semi-automatic Obama generals babbling
like idiots about how Trump is ruining their sweet gigs, though they don’t put
it quite that way. Look at the appalling Chairman of the Joint Chiefs apologizing for following the elected president’s lead.
And, especially, look at their horror that America is ending those endless
wars.
Those are the generals, and they have the
elite’s back, not yours. A general who said “all lives matter” or refused to
buy the ridiculous but fashionable notion that America’s greatest strategic
threat is whether a century hence or uttered some other heresy would not be a
general much longer – and certainly not cash in on a sweet post-retirement gig at
Boeing.
But
most Americans don’t see that. Because America remembers the military of 30
years ago that could actually win a war in a reasonable period of time (as we
did in Desert Storm), today’s generals benefit from residual respect for
yesterday’s Cold War military. Americans are unaware of the devastated culture
cultivated by our military senior leadership. Here’s the ruinous legacy of
today’s generals: Afghanistan is a disaster and still not won, ships colliding and catching fire due to gross failures of
leadership, boats of sailors on tape whimpering as they surrender to
the Iranian Navy, senior officers leaking to the media, colonels, generals and admirals getting court-martialed,
massive prosecutorial misconduct by JAGs, woke West
Point (which recently graduated an open communist), and troops kneeling before rioters. It’s a
military that puts Diversity Day before D-Day.
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Unfortunately, the first 24
hours of war with China would make the rot agonizingly apparent – at the cost
of thousands of our warriors’ precious lives. They’ll deny it, of course, and I
fervently hope I’m wrong. But I fear I’m not, because none of the incentives in
today’s military are aimed toward achieving combat readiness instead of
achieving ideological conformity.
So,
count on the active duty generals to fall in line when the New York Times trumpets
the Democrats’ line that Trump’s victory is illegitimate. That’s the voice of
the people they really take their orders from.
Then what?
Good question, but remember
that the military is not just the generals. The military includes the
middle-grade and junior officers and non-commissioned officers as well as the
enlisted troops. And while the woke poison has spread into these ranks too,
there is a real question about whether those leaders, who are where the tank
treads meet the road, would follow an order to make war on American citizens.
That’s a harsh way of putting
it, but making war is what the military does – it uses fire and maneuver to
destroy the enemy, and to the liberal establishment, those of us who refuse to
allow the election victory of our candidate to be undone will be the enemy.
Intervention by the military necessarily means America forces killing American
patriots.
And
no, the New York Times’ Marxist
newsroom will not be exploding in protests over that domestic use of military
force; it will be loudly cheering it.
We know we cannot trust this
generation of generals to stand up for freedom, but I’d like to think that a
good portion of the troops would refuse to enter civilian politics in favor of
the anti-American left. Yet, I would have also liked to think that we’d never
see law enforcement officers eagerly obeying the fascist decrees of liberal
poohbahs. The sight of overeager Barney Fifes hassling citizens about piehole
thongs made it clear that for some people oaths come behind the giddy joy of
power and keeping their pensions.
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So, the question is, what
will our troops do? Will they make war on the American people so that Basement
Biden’s puppet masters can turn America into Venezuela 2: The Quickening? Or will they say “No” to
imposing a leftist dictatorship, which is what the Democrats’ Revenge Agenda proposes? Our
troops are loved in large part because they don’t take a side in domestic
politics; if they do, and turn on the people for the benefit of a senile old
puppet and the Truancy Avenger, well, that affection
evaporates.
Sadly, we cannot rely on the
generals to not make the error. Let’s just hope that the danger is mooted
because Trump’s margin of victory is so great that the Democrats cannot cheat.
Reprinted
with permission from The Burning Platform.
Copyright © Kurt
Schlichter, The Burning Platform
