{"id":57280,"date":"2014-12-23T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57280"},"modified":"2014-12-22T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T19:21:41","slug":"army-times-the-militarys-shift-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57280","title":{"rendered":"Army Times; the military’s shift Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Army Times<\/a> writes that members of the military are slowly shifting to the Left in their political leanings. That’s because they’ve begun to accept the social engineers’ programs like gays in thee military and women in combat. But it also states that support for the President has fallen from 30% to 15% in their poll. <\/p>\n

At the same time, they report that “44 percent think both major political parties have become less supportive of military issues in recent years” which is what they should really take away from their little poll, not that military folks are more liberal. <\/p>\n

The military has always supported gays in the military – I knew of a few who were in when I was in and as long as they did their job, I didn’t care. My views on women in combat haven’t changed either and I think I’m in line with most members of the military when I say that all women should have the opportunity to prove that they can meet the current, time-tested standard and serve with men. I knew a few of those women, too. But, I don’t think anyone would accuse me of being a liberal. So, the folks at Army Times are reading what they want in the poll. Conservatives are defenders of equal opportunity for all Americans, in the traditional sense, not the new liberal backwards definition where everything is normed to groups. <\/p>\n

The truth is that members of the military are as conservative as ever, but they’re not Republicans. The GOP has lost our faith. The first people to call for cuts to personnel costs during the current wars were Republicans – Bachman, Graham, McCain, Coburn – the same people who sent the troops to war in the first place. <\/p>\n

Republicans didn’t have the political and testicular fortitude to avoid sequestration and they’ve done nothing since the White House plan took effect to change it and restore funding to the military. They’ve done little to hold the Pentagon’s feet to the fire to cut wasteful spending. Republicans cleaved to the personnel cuts because it’s the easiest thing to cut without much thought or plan.<\/p>\n

Chief Tango, who sent us the Army Times link, also sends this from the National Review<\/a>, which picks up on what I’ve written above;<\/p>\n

Those service members who consider themselves Republicans have slowly dropped from nearly half of those surveyed to just 32 percent this year. The Times poll notes that \u201cincreasingly, readers are more likely to describe themselves as libertarian (7 percent) or independent (28 percent).\u201d Democrats and liberals make up some 8 percent of the poll respondents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The take away is; people in the military don’t trust politicians, and that’s not new. What’s new is that we used to trust Republicans more than we trusted Democrats to fight for us while we’re fighting for the country. That’s not true anymore, at least in the perception of the troops. The Democrats have been very good at saving welfare and food stamps for their traditional constituents, but the Republicans have been very bad at representing their traditional constituents – the military and veterans, the people who earned what they expect from the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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