Democrat wokeness degrading US military
America’s military is the finest fighting force in the world, but its strength isn’t inevitable and can’t be taken for granted. It’s an inheritance from past generations of patriots, who created its culture and traditions on the battlefields at great cost. Maintaining this inheritance takes sweat, money, and above all respect for our forefathers and our country.
Sadly, there is ample reason to believe our military’s traditions and combat effectiveness are declining, thanks in part to Democrats’ woke obsessions, which put divisive identity politics before cohesion and which smear America as a force for evil not worth fighting for. The Democrats’ political correctness is neutering the military—and it must be stopped.
Across the military, warning lights are flashing red on the dash.
The Army just missed its annual recruiting goal by 25%, or 20,000 soldiers. The Navy missed its target for officers by 200. The National Guard came up 9,000 recruits short. The Department of Defense stated in a report that failures in recruitment are driven in part by "social unrest."
Applications to service academies also are way down, tumbling 12 percent at West Point, more than 20 percent each at Annapolis and West Point, and one-quarter at the Virginia Military Institute. During the same period, the number of college applicants rose more than 20 percent.
Seasoned warfighters are raising the alarm about even more trouble ahead. When I encouraged military whistleblowers to share their concerns privately, we were flooded with hundreds of messages about declining standards and degraded capabilities. In some cases, essential training in weapons systems, navigation, and ship handling is falling by the wayside, while commanders are forced to prioritize woke "diversity" trainings you’d expect to see on a liberal-arts campus. In some cases, these trainings aren’t merely harmful. They’re illegal under civil-rights law. But that hasn’t stopped "the agenda-driven people" in Washington, as Marine Corps General John Kelly once called them.
Fact is, these troubling changes aren’t coming from out of the blue. They’re pushed by Democratic politicians and liberal activists who despise the military as it is and want to transform it, just as they’ve transformed so many elite institutions into hollow shells of their former selves.
The root of liberals’ hostility to the defense budget and key weapons is distrust of the military as an institution. The military embodies American power at its hardest and most lethal edge. The Democratic Party is sometimes called "the mommy party" because of its focus on softer, caring, and nurturing priorities. Few characters in American culture are more distant from "mommy" than the military’s iconic drill sergeant. Tensions are bound to arise.
These tensions undermine our military’s ability to fight and win wars. Too often, liberals suspect the military of racism, sexism, and extremism lurking just below a highly polished and creased veneer. They distract from training and readiness to rectify these supposed sins, engaging in social engineering that both threatens our security and puts our troops at risk. Liberals seem more comfortable training social-justice warriors than actual warriors trained to kill.
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This is all dangerous folly. The military is a fighting force, not a liberal-arts college or Fortune 500 company. Phyllis Schlafly, the famed conservative activist who defeated the Democrats’ first attempt to draft women into the military, put it well when she said, "The purpose of the armed forces of the United States is to defend our country. The purpose is not to engage in social experimentation or to give jobs to needy people or to run day-care facilities for people who have babies. The purpose is to defend us." The military operates in a different way and reveres different things than do civilian institutions precisely because the stakes are higher. If the military is mismanaged, protesters don’t occupy a campus building and shareholders don’t take a loss. Americans die. […]
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If Americans keep electing the current crop of Democrats it will become weaker militarily and will likely lose any new conflicts. It is also the kind of weakness that invites aggression from other countries.
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