It's entertaining and disturbing to watch the far right flail and accuse everyone who disagrees with their Dear Leader as being a radical leftist, socialist/marxist traitor; meanwhile, even the political centrists and moderates are becoming alienated from the right wing. You people don't see how mouth-foamy you're starting to sound as you support utterly insane policy making that is actively working to destroy the fabric of our nation.
The military has never particularly cared about whether we have a war hawk President or not. They'll carry out the agenda of the leader du jour. What burns the military, and what angers them now, is the flippant betrayal of our commitments we have made in good faith with other nations and our allies. Trump has walked away from treaties merely because they were constructed during Democratic administrations without any regard for honoring the consistency of rule of the United States. The situation with the Kurds is a perfect example. We legally owe them nothing, but they have been faithful allies in almost every theater in the Middle East. Now we are ditching them with their backs to the wall, and Dear Leader is trying to convince us that, "well, the Kurds aren't perfect people, so why should we care?"
I mean, how hard is it to simply fess up and say, "Yes, the situation is horrible. We feel badly for our Kurdish allies, but the United States must put its interests first." That would be honest, at least. Instead, he is so narcissistic that he will smear the Kurds as a people in order to preserve his image.
Zero loyalty. Zero respect. Zero honor. All things the military highly values.
By all rational analytical measure, our political system is currently threatened by the right wing. All the watch dogs are saying it, as are the humanitarian groups and moderate think tanks. The problem isn't serious yet because our protective branches of government are still sufficiently functional to quell true fascism, but we are tilting more toward the fascist side of the spectrum than we have in a long time.
We need to reform and snuff out the radical right wing element ASAP. Trump needs to go, the filibuster needs to be done away with, and Presidential powers need to be scaled back to pre-Bush era authorities. Rules need to be introduced to stop Congressional obstruction. These are basic things we need to do ASAP before the pendulum shifts more to the right and the in-fighting increases.
Me personally, I think it's too late... but we'll see how it plays out. In our nation's history there have been many dire moments that looked bad and we pulled through. Maybe we can do that this time, too.
