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Originally posted by Not Me
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.
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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First, I started with the observation that the military runs toward the GOP, so you're preaching to the choir. Second, that said, there are a lot of minorities in the military, and it's not clear that anyone has ever studied how they vote. If you can point to something empirical on this, I'd like to see it, but if you're just blowing smoke out your ass as per usual, that's fine because we probably generally agree. Enlisted men and women are probably more conservative than their non-uniformed peers, but are probably less GOP-aligned than the officer corps.
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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?
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I give up. Who was it?
