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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
More low-income people join the military than high-income people, and they tend to be Democratic in orientation.
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While it is true that more low-income people join than high-income people and that low-income people tend to be Dems, that doesn't prove that the low-income people who join the military tend to be Dems. The reason the military is largely Reps could be (and likely is) because by and large those low-income people who aren't Dems (i.e., from the South, Texas, and Midwest and from small towns) are the ones volunteering.
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
But the officer corps trends Republican.
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So do the enlisted ranks, which outnumber the officers. There are more privates than generals in the army. You yourself admit the military is fairly homogenous in its political ideology. If it were only the officers that were Reps, it would be more a heterogenous military with the enlisted ranks being Dems and the officers being Reps. But it isn't.
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I don't know who you think said that people join the military only for economic benefits, but it sounds like something that one of you conservative law-and-economics types would say. People are motivated by more than money, you know.
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Who was it that made the arguments about Jessica Lynch (and others like her who join) being expoited because they had no other economic options and they only joined to get a job/college scholarship money?
