The faith that ordinary Americans have in their government has been degrading precipitously since the 1950s. Congress, the Executive Branch (tarnished severely by the repeated abuses of both LBJ and Richard Nixon), the courts, the bureaucratic agencies, the media…all of it has collapsed into near-single digit approval ratings.
Like Rome at the time of its fall, we view the faltering power wielded by our government not with awe and respect but with equal measures of disgust with its impotence and hatred for what tyrannies it is still able to inflict.
The courts uphold bad policies while keeping leftists out of jail and locking up conservatives.
The police can’t be bothered with halting the predations of the savages that set the nation alight for months on end, but they sure can arrest you for smoking pot or give you a $500 fine for speeding, and that’s before they’re ordered to confiscate your guns.
Meanwhile, the entire executive branch (with the exception of Trump and a few of his more faithful advisors) incompetently pursues an unpopular, globalist agenda. Congress sits around and bickers before spending trillions of dollars we don’t have on projects we don’t need or want. The entire government apparatus, since the Progressive Era but accelerating after the 50s, has been a failure; Americans have justly lost faith in it.
The one exception has been the military. While it lost some of its luster during the Vietnam War, it recovered that prestige during the Reagan Revolution. The newly rebuilt military, pumped up by a few easy wins in Grenada, Nicaragua, and the Gulf and boosted in the eyes of the public by Tom Clancy’s novels, was the one institution we had faith in.
Despite the failures of Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya, despite the monumental waste of the Pentagon and the lack of vision of those heading it, Americans maintained their faith in the military. Rightly or wrongly, they believed that it was still an impartial, non-partisan guardian of the republic.
All it took was the election of Slow Joe to dash those hopes against the rocks, perhaps forever.
While the military behaved poorly under Trump, fighting his calls to pull out of forever wars in the Middle East and refusing to deal with the riots that rocked the nation, it didn’t appear irredeemable.
Then came Biden and his woke parody of the Marian reforms. The famously bickering services united to slander a talk show host, Tucker Carlson (but, as is their tendency nowadays, they were defeated). They purged the military in Stalinist fashion, constantly attacking conservatives. Then they partnered with the CIA to release a spate of woke ads…I’m sure Xi and Putin trembled at the prospect of fighting Jack Reacharound and his merry band of critical theorists. Oh, and they added How to Be an Antiracist to the reading list for officers.
But still, some hoped the military was redeemable. Gen. Milley proved them wrong.
You’ve likely seen the video already but, in case not, here it is:
In it, after flying off the handle at the suggestion that those indoctrinated with CRT are “woke,” General Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, defends teaching CRT to America’s soldiers. In his words:“I want to understand white rage…
I do want to know [about critical race theory]. And it matters to the discipline and cohesion of this military.”
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, one of the most powerful men in the military establishment, sat there and not only defending teaching CRT to America’s soldiers, but got angry at the suggestion that doing so wasn’t the best of ideas!
To be clear, CRT teaches that America’s laws are rooted in racism and that everyone is irredeemably racist. Furthermore, it teaches that the only solution to racist offenses in the past is to be racist in the present against those previously racist groups.
In effect, that means that Milley, in addition to wanting to teach soldiers about “white rage,” whatever that is, wants to teach them that they are racist and that, if they’re white, they should be the ritual, sacrificial victims to those who feel like their ancestors might have been oppressed. When he defends CRT, that is what he is defending. A nation cannot long survive if its troops are taught to hate themselves and their country.
And, thanks to that woke general, Americans have lost faith in their military. The last institution they trusted to behave honorably and objectively, eschewing partisanship and politics, is gone. It’s been replaced by a woke parody of a Western military, one that has all the bells and whistles of modern tech but that, rather than training warriors trains social justice warriors. The military has become yet another leftist institution.
You can say bye-bye to any remaining faith in America’s government.
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Pooch is screwed on this article as it’s not loading correctly. Just a big boobtube
Here’s a link to the original story
https://genzconservative.com/milley-and-the-decline-of-americas-military/
Got it. Yeah, I knew we were screwed with the military back when they fortified DC from attack of the horrible jogger haters. This country is fucked. The bad part about it is a lot of people think like we do but can’t put aside minor differences. Circular firing squad on our side. Have a close relative that joined the army last week out of high school. He was Trump guy. I’m curious how he’ll come out on the other side with this BS.
Perhaps with the Demented one declaring the majority of the population to be dangerous folks, and the idiot general following his lead is connected??
The woke broke general and the ghettopotomus.
AIn’t that the fucking truth. She boon cross breed.
The military should NEVER have been considered or treated like a sacred institution.
Right.
JEREMIAH 32:35
KJ21
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech, which I commanded them not, neither came it into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Nobody can pass them through the fire like our military.
Agree. Same with “our first responders”.
We were better off with a militia. Very little foreign interference when all the soldiers have other jobs to do at home.
Meaning war is seen as a disruptive thing, not the purpose of your life.
A timely article. Let me add to it. Andrew Bacevich, a retired army colonel, West Point graduate, and, sadly, father of a son lost in the Iraq War, is now a professor at Boston University. He is well-known for his writing on the military and international relations and current events.
He has just published a book, After the Apocalypse. In many ways it is a useful and perceptive book. He relentlessly attacks American foreign policy, the idea of American exceptionalism, and the cynical use of U.S. power. He calls for a complete reordering of our national policies, domestic and international. He is spot on about many things, including the bloated defense budget, the incompetence of our “ruling class”, the refusal to acknowledge the changes in the world since the Berlin Wall fell and, of course, the stupidity and waste of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. No lover of Trump, nonetheless is he is scathing in his attacks on Clinton, George Bush, and Obama. He obviously has contempt for Biden as well. So far, so good.
At this point, Bacevich wanders off into cloud cuckoo land.
With an astonishing lack of honesty (for he is far too educated to have done it by mistake or omission), he blathers on about the various international wars we have fought and the injustice we have inflicted on foreigners, skipping over the Civil War, in which a ruthless Federal government utterly destroyed a third of the country, supposedly to “save the Union”. He describes Confederate generals once honored at West Point as trying to destroy the United States when he knows full well they were trying to leave it; nobody has ever seriously suggested that the Confederates sought to conquer the North or abolish the U.S. government. One can (and I do) question the wisdom of the Southerners in trying to leave the Union, but, as they say, the past is another country. No American living today can understand the many reasons the war came. As for honoring Confederates, this was a conscious attempt to honor Americans who fought for what they thought was a good cause, even if the men who honored them disagreed in every way. They were wisely trying to bind up the wounds of war and knew, unlike Bacevich, that giving a brave foe their due was part of this.
Bacevich then compounds his idiocy by stridently supporting the so-called 1619 Movement, a pseudo-historical attempt to elevate the Negro as the centerpiece of American history and generate anti-white hatred. To be sure, the role of the blacks and other nonwhites in our history has been slighted, but the current bilge being peddled has nothing to do with correcting that. It is an open attack on the historic American nation and on white Americans in general. His book is nothing less than a defense of the “Woke” movement, a subversive and treasonous conspiracy by the very worst elements in this country.
Fortunately, very few white Americans, the historic core of this nation, will fall for this gibberish. They know instinctively (and more are waking up every day, no pun intended) that our country is in grave danger from buffoons like Bacevich. The recent disgraceful performance by General Milley in front of Congress may well be the moment at which our people realized that every one of our institutions have been captured by traitors and cynical opportunists. The military as it exists today will never recover from the vicious, inexcusable muttering of this ignorant brass hat. No white man in his right mind will want to serve in this rotten corps of mercenaries after Milley’s outburst. More to the point, no decent person will allow their children to serve in this collection of armed vagabonds, and I say that as a former Marine. The man good men and women still serving will head for the exits.
Civil war is now inevitable.
In a gloomy kind of way, I think a civil war would be the good news. I have a hunch TPTB are going for a controlled demolition ethnic cleansing to make the land safe for the Latin and Asian slaves they hope to replace us with. If only the blacks new they are next on the list after whitey we could turn the tables on them.
Take a page from history and persuade a power like Russia to back us like they backed the NVA or like we backed a particular movement in the third world.
Whatever we are presently doing or not doing aint’ woikin.
Another nice comment. Except one thing. Have you not been able to master the art of Paragraph Breaks?? C’mon man, try it … it makes reading a long comment so much easier.
I am just starting a new book — “The Fall of the House of Dixie” — purported to chronicle the Civil War as seldom seen. First chapter “The House of Dixie” was terrific. I might declare myself a CW expert when done!
Our department of war is called the Department of DEFENSE. If only!!! “Defense” hasn’t been our government’s goal for ages … and certainly not in my lifetime.
Russia’s military is built solely for defense (exception being thousands of nukes, if needed, in retaliation). They don’t have hundreds of bases around the world. They don’t bomb countries to hell all over the world. They don’t provoke China. They can’t project power for more than a few hundred miles from their own borders. And they don’t want to. They don’t threaten other countries with boycotts, isolation, or war if they don’t get their way.
And guess what? Their military budget is a small fraction of ours … and in much better shape than ours. Funny how that works … when all you have to do is defend your own country, and not be the world’s Policeman. (Anybody who brings up Crimea or Georgia is a moran.)
I mentioned Russia because they owe us amends. The Union would not have had a Chinamans chance in hell of defeating the south, had they not intervened by sending warships to both coasts on behalf of the north.
LOL, there’s never any mention in the “history books” that England and France were planning to invade America- France from Mexico and England from Canada. The Russians already had it in their craw the Crimean War, and evidently were itching to start an international war with them.
It would have been neat had that war started, pitting America and Russia against England and France.
Good one Stucky. I can’t wait for your book, being a southerner.
He is reading it, I think, but once he finishes and is an expert, he may write his own book on the topic.
SS is old school typist, when the Word Processor automatically inserted a paragraph “indent” instead of just a line return.
As a 90 wpm typist from way back in the olden days when Smith-Corona had no relation to a virus or a beer from Mexico, I get it.
Why should we have to do a double return just because we are old?
Hmmmm …. interesting possibility. Thanks.
However, I have yet to hear from Southern Sage himself … even though this is at least the 3rd time I’ve asked him about his Paragraph Phobia, and he just ignores me. Not nice!! I may have to resort to calling him a “dick”, and down-voting until I see improvement.
OMG! Anything but that! I will re-educate myself!
My paragraph indentations here are removed when I hit post comment, forcing me to stop my thought process and insert a double space. At my age stopping the thought for a second can mean never seeing it again.
The handicap carts at Walmart even outrun my memory these days. Every two isles I have to stop and wait for it to catch up.
Uh, Ghost, afraid you are spot on!
I, for one, liked the old style of paragraph noting instead of the double-spacing.
But no one asked my opinion.
Edit: IN FACT? I typed 5 spaces above before the second paragraph and guess what? It adjusted it for me.
The internet is against old school paragraph formatting.
I thought Smith-Coronas only printed in 30 caliber
OK, Stucky, OK, I will put in the paragraph breaks. I am so busy printing up counterfeit lottery tickets that I just don’t think about it.
About the time I am considered a “problem”, they won’t be.
Now I know how the scales of justice got tipped. I bet it looked like a trebuchet when she got on.
Perhaps this video of a sad and cringe-worthy incident is reflective of the kinder, gentler, diverse, inclusive and Woke military that Gens. Austin and Milley’s Pentagram would like to see:
WHen time comes to exercise U.S. military force against a prepared and determined adversary who may even have parity and isn’t prone to White Rage, Drag Queen Officer Time, Pride parades, Critical Race Theory compulsory reading lists, training and struggle sessions then the whole world will get to see how all this progressive warfighting works or doesn’t.
Auntie is not sanguine about the prospects for the USSA in such a contest. See Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, ISIS Califate, Afghanistan, and Somalia for details.
If you have not figured it out for yourself yet here is what you are witnessing. If you are white you are being set up for termination. Don’t believe me, try reading the TEN Steps to Genocide and follow that up with perusing the University of Hawaii website specifically the Democide Project if they have not deleted it. Socialist, communist, progressive’s of all stripes KILL their political rivals, those are the lucky, the rest end up in camps. Do not for a minute think that The Donald is going to ride in and save the day. He is just another LARP like “Q”. He is controlled opposition there to distract and sow discord in conservative circles. There is only one way off clown world and out of the coming destruction of this country. VOTE: 308 & FREEDOM It is that or may the chains that bind you rest lightly upon you.
Sometimes you have to destroy a village to save a village.
Sometimes you have to be a racist to destroy a racist.
Sometime you have to blow an Army to be Vice President.
No tell me Democraps aren’t FUCKED IN THE HEAD!!!
Sounds like we just bombed Syria.
Bringing Them Democracy © two target-packages at a time to a sovereign country the US is not technically at war with.
Weapons storage facilities is code for weddings.
I think the requirement to bomb Syria was slipped into the infrastructure bill.
Preparing for the release of the AZ audit by distracting the public’s attention.
I’m gonna bet that if you die of The Shot before Nov 2022, the Democrats will still allow you to vote by Absentee Ballot. …Personally, I hope the Condo collapse in Miami causes a lot of Yankees to decide to relocate to Minnesota or Belize instead of very dangerous Florida.
completely unrelated to our military but this is a video of a pile up at the tour de france caused by a spectator waving a sign–
a cluster fuk just like our military has become–
be sure to watch the overhead video so you’ll see just how big the crash was–
https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/26/oblivious-fan-bike-crash-tour-de-france/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=getemails&tpcc%3D=getemails&pnespid=0fhjt_hBHR2NUj80sRyQQ90xPOYcfb9ZeFdTuVHg
But she did get her picture taken with her sign in front of the cyclists and that was the intention.
What is more supremely racist than a race calling themselves ‘the chosen ones’? All this bloviating to obfuscate the only, true and worst racists on the planet.
There is one prime problem on Earth – the race that gained all prime money control to cheat, deceive and take advantage in every possible way, bought all politicians to be above the law, then bought all media to use it all to tell everyone else they’re the problem.
Military was on life support in the 90s. All they did since then was pump money and deployments into it to keep it going like it was steroids.
They never really invested in the troops like they should have. Instead, they pissed away trillions on jihadis, moles and acted upon the most garbage of garbage intelligence and killed unknown hundreds of thousands of people.
If was never about oil. It was always about a shell game of moving the money bled from us to their pockets and their masters’ pockets.
Trillions wasted. Let that amount sink in. Trillion, let alone billion, is such an incomprehensible figure that the average person will just accept the number.
The military has been one giant clusterfuck since Bush 1 and it really circled the drain under slick Willie and his gutting of combat systems and combat MOS fields.
Equipment was always shoddy unless you were SpecOps and even then they sourced outside military supply chains to get the best.
Throw in utter trash future systems like the F35 and M2 Bradleys and Strykers and you have the pinnacle of grifting the government and flag Officers making their post-military career beds at the expense of frontline troops.
ZFG, out.
P.S. the only thing we got when we got what we paid for was the big green weenie in the ass. But hey, at least we can kill one fucken cave dweller with a $2million missile and wonder why our budget is beyond fucked.
Yeah I am still salty.