Not really, the military actually skews young so they tend to be more liberal than you’d think. POC are also over-represented in the military, and they skew left as well. Polling showed they voted for Bernie at a rate much higher than the average population, for example.
It’s just that in the military, even die-hard liberals are going to be “just following orders”. Now that it’s an all-volunteer force, we are long from the days of rebelliousness during the Vietnam War.
Not really, the military actually skews young so they tend to be more liberal than you’d think. POC are also over-represented in the military, and they skew left as well. Polling showed they voted for Bernie at a rate much higher than the average population, for example.
It’s just that in the military, even die-hard liberals are going to be “just following orders”. Now that it’s an all-volunteer force, we are long from the days of rebelliousness during the Vietnam War.