Don’t Listen to a Thing I Say About the Military

Listen instead to veteran Don Cooper:

I too am a vet and couldn’t agree with you more. I was in Panama in the late eighties when the U.S. invaded. The military is a corrupt, immoral, abusive, inefficient sub-culture that, as you pointed out, doesn’t fight for the country but rather for it’s own survival.

I always laughed at how the military advertises that it wants only the best and the brightest recruits but then the first thing they do to you in basic training is try and break you down and reshape you into a mindless obeyer. Why do they need the best and the brightest for that? If they’re going to reshape who you are then it doesn’t matter if you’re the best and the brightest or the worst and the dumbest.

And it’s true. I served with guys who could barely read or write. Guys with criminal records at 20 years old.  I mean just the biggest collection of misfits I had ever seen. And immoral? You have no idea. Anything and everything went: drugs, stealing, sex, lying, scapegoating. Hell, half the base got busted for drugs down there.

The military is a hiding place for the country’s degenerate class. Until they can get out and become cops.

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