4. What the US does NOT need is a military interested in politics.
I cannot think of a single thing more likely to lead to the Napoleonic failure of American democracy.
When you look across the history of western democratic movements, you ought to be struck by the realization that MOST of the republics the revolutions put in place foundered on the shoals of dictatorships, many of them military juntas.
It makes me sick at heart to realize where the nation is perched and how quickly we came here.
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