So you expect them to trash their career? This isn’t a job where you can easily take it or leave it. Imagine being under 40 and throwing away your retirement, starting all over.
They swore to uphold the Constitution, and so far their orders have not broken that vow.
That’s how authoritarianism wins every time. Do you expect people to resist? Careers, retirements, bonuses, if not them it will be someone else, this is not illegal just immoral, oh now it’s illegal but not that illegal, oh now it’s illegal but my boss would yell at me if I don’t do it, oh now I’m too deep, fast forward two years and you’re torturing last members of opposition in your newly built concentration camp and wondering not how it went so deep so fast, but when is the lunch and will you be able to torture enough people to get a good evaluation this month.
I get all that. I agree. All I’m saying is that these troops have not broken any laws, have not violated the Constitution. Trump can only deploy them in DC for 30-days, we’ll see how that plays when time’s up.
My best friend from high school did a few years in the Army, the rest was with the Guard. Not sure how it all works, then or now, but that got him to 20-years and retirement benefits.
So you expect them to trash their career? This isn’t a job where you can easily take it or leave it. Imagine being under 40 and throwing away your retirement, starting all over.
They swore to uphold the Constitution, and so far their orders have not broken that vow.
Yes.
Their orders have absolutely broken that vow.
Yet. Let’s see what they do when their orders do violate the constitution.
A buck says 99.9% of them will still be okay with it.
That’s how authoritarianism wins every time. Do you expect people to resist? Careers, retirements, bonuses, if not them it will be someone else, this is not illegal just immoral, oh now it’s illegal but not that illegal, oh now it’s illegal but my boss would yell at me if I don’t do it, oh now I’m too deep, fast forward two years and you’re torturing last members of opposition in your newly built concentration camp and wondering not how it went so deep so fast, but when is the lunch and will you be able to torture enough people to get a good evaluation this month.
I get all that. I agree. All I’m saying is that these troops have not broken any laws, have not violated the Constitution. Trump can only deploy them in DC for 30-days, we’ll see how that plays when time’s up.
I think I can answer that already
While you’re right, it is also the national guard so it’s a supplemental/part-time job and not the primary job for a lot of them.
My best friend from high school did a few years in the Army, the rest was with the Guard. Not sure how it all works, then or now, but that got him to 20-years and retirement benefits.
Imagine being under 40 and thinking you’ll be allowed to retire…