If your military loses faith in a leadership that keeps your country in a perpetual state of war, your country is in trouble. For a nation to exist, there must be enough people who not only believe in that country, but enough people willing to die defending it. What American and western leaders need to remember or consider is that a nation is a manmade construct. It can only exist if enough people believe it should exist. If this weren't a requirement, I could create my own country Christanistan and have it recognized by the United Nations.
Just think about it, the Soviet Union no longer exists, so no one can say the United States will exist forever. Of course the land will survive the fall of the American empire, but the empire itself could be in its final days. Now, think about the last time the United States won a war or military conflict. This country has been at war somewhere in the world since World War III, but can take credit for every few victories. Our intervention has done little to bring Democracy to other nations, provide humanitarian aide to other countries, help other countries grow their emerging markets (ON PURPOSE). AN honest assessment of America's historic contributions to the world is as dismal as it is contributions to a plurality, if not majority of its own people.
Both at home and abroad, citizens are in more precarious positions due to US intervention. Countries like China have brought 40 million of its citizens out of poverty while America has probably pushed just as many of its people into poverty.
So, as I've predicted in my book Solutions and in my blogs for years, it will take the people of our military and police departments to stand up to the manipulation, control and decline that we experience on a greater scale day by day. As for the police, I still have hope that they will someday realize that the treatment they provide in other people's neighborhoods is the same treatment to which their loved ones are susceptible back home. The police need to remember that shortly before Occupy Wall Street, they were being demonized along with teachers and firefighters as the biggest and worst drags on the economy. Back then, they immediately forgot this once the elite poured five (5) millions dollars into NY, so the cops could go pepper spray and bash the heads of Occupy Wall Street protestors. I wonder how the lives of those cops have been since those days. I wonder if those cops have been exposed to the same inflation that is robbing far too many Americans of the wealth. I wonder if those cops can afford the exorbitant increases in property taxes and homeowner's insurance that is forcing some to sell or abandon their family homes. It was, according to the Main Stream Media, only a few bad apples that were making all police look bad to which I question:
"If it's only a few bad apples, why don't the abundance of good apples arrest the bad apples?"
Though anecdotal, it's been my experience that the good apples get run out of the police force.
The fact that our police and military are probably the only people who can stop the corruption that has infected our Government from the highest office in the land (the Presidency) to your Home Owner's Association should induce shame in the American electorate. The fact that no one seems to be in streets protesting it, implies that we have lost the spirit that made America great. I'm not trying to side with Trump with these words. I'm kind of upset that he's co-opted the phrase, but I do believe it applies. Imagine all of the androgenous, gender fluid people in America defending a country they view as having a bias based on their biology. Can you envision an effective army, staffed with the people we see screaming the loudest about their personal pronouns?
Our service people are quitting the military, as documented in this story and this is an indicator that we need a change. And, since our leaders don't seem to want to change, it is up to others to make that change.
In 2018, I wrote a book highlighting the problems Humanity would face if more power, wealth, and control was funneled to a small group of elite individuals, groups, or organizations. In my book, I provided solutions (from myself and others) to the inevitable problems and also a means for the Public to analyze, compare, and contrast the words and deeds of those we choose to follow against reality. In my book Solutions: Enough complaining. Let's fix America.
In "Solutions...", I provide the means for readers to disseminate information as provided by their news sources of choice, their elected officials, and any other authority they choose to follow. The book also offers a means to hold their leaders up, not just to a higher standard than is currently accepted but to one that would improve their lives and the lives of those for whom they care.
