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The core of the post-Vietnam volunteer US military (well more complicated than that with contractors and shit moving on) is these generations of chuds pouring out of the deep south.
Even the PSL, which we were just discussing, is all buddy-buddy with organizations that treat US veterans as special good boys who need their treats. After all Brian Becker's BFF is Mike Prysner, who got on the map by doing the Medea Benjamin bit of screaming at GWB about how he shed precious soldier blood on filthy middle eastern soil (yes this is a bad faith characterization of the way he centered soldiers' lives over the colonized – my friends died because you lied – and he deserves it)
We've got an issue with coddling the US military to work out. Don't be deceived by the west's online spaces
I think there's a certain degree of desperation about it, when we're talking about what's being said and done about it in good faith by regular folks (as opposed to CIA meddling and the like). Whether with PSL or with the military.
To try to explain what I mean, imagine if the conclusion, upon careful investigation, is that the US military is mainly imperialist loyalists and that PSL is largely useless for getting anywhere. This would imply, based on my understanding of the current crop of parties in the US: 1) There isn't really anybody visibly leading the charge from within who is capable of meeting the moment and 2) The military is going to be a major obstacle from within, unless it breaks itself in imperialist wars.
If this is actually the case, better to know that than to believe in falsehoods. But it's also a grim outlook for those of us who were born in the US and would have a hard time going elsewhere.
I hope that makes sense.