Agreed most military members lean right, enlisted more far right than officers. Part of it could be because Officer oaths are slightly different. Even so, "leaning right" doesn't mean they click their heels and salute every far Right topic some Washington douchebag throws into the air. Over the past 20 years, many military have become right-leaning Independents because, like myself, they see the Republican Party as having gone insane. Still, since elections come down to voting for either the "D" or the "R", many will vote "R". Others, like myself, vote Libertarian or other Third Party. About a quarter vote Democrat. I voted every year of my 20 year military career and every election since. You? How long were you in? Voting?
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/p...ks-poll-shows/
Exit polling in the 2016 presidential election saw military members and veterans vote nearly two-to-one in favor of Republican candidates. The Military Times poll doesn’t show as big a disparity with troops this election cycle, but that could shift given that more than 26 percent say they don’t plan to support either party.
Troops surveyed had a 44 percent favorable view of Trump against a 43 percent unfavorable view. Women, minorities and officers had significantly lower opinions of his tenure, and men and enlisted service members offered more support.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
It is not a fourth branch of government. It is a category of executive branch organization:
Cabinet departments
Independent executive agencies
Independent regulatory agencies
Government corporations
Presidential commissions
By the way, these other types of executive branch organizations are not branches of government, either.
FCC policy is made by the five member commission, not the president; thus the name Federal Communications Commission.
Last edited by Flash; 05-30-2020 at 07:59 PM.
Farrakhan has been banned for life from Facebook. Twitter denied him full verification, but has allowed him to continue as on probation. Farrakhan has never called for violence on either platform in the same way as trump has, but has been punished worse than trump.
By the way, Farrakhan is a trump supporter:
Praise for Donald Trump
During the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Farrakhan praised Republican candidate Donald Trump as the only candidate "who has stood in front of the Jewish community and said 'I don’t want your money.'" While he declined to endorse outright, he said of Trump "I like what I'm looking at."[57] In 2018, Farrakhan again praised Trump for "destroying every enemy that was an enemy of our rise."[58] Conservative pundits Candace Owens and Glenn Beck both took note of Farrakhan's position, with Owens saying it was a "really big deal" that Farrakhan had "aligned himself with Trump's administration" and Beck declaring that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and urging "reconciliation" between conservatives and Farrakhan.[59]
Bookmarks