tomferal sgtcornflake
15 hours ago
It's too late for that which you can't advocate in this forum as the US Army is now Woke and will soon be even more Woke when they finish their Wrong Thing Purge of their own troops. Then it will be as our Founding Fathers feared.

When a government wishes to deprive its citizens of freedom, and reduce them to slavery, it generally makes use of a standing army.

• Luther Martin, Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen. Without standing armies liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe
-James Madison ("The Father of the United States Constitution", the Constitution that the Pentagon is now at war with)

There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation, and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors, that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot, but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army.

• Thomas Jefferson

In the days following the American Revolution, Jefferson became increasingly concerned about two tendencies he believed were intrinsically connected: the concentration of power in a centralized government, and the establishment of a standing army [especially a career class one].