• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Because they’ve been grumbling about that forever and it will never happen unless the US government just up and loses its military.

    There will never be the political and populace buy in for something like that to ever end as more than a compound of political extremists getting wiped out by the national guard.

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      7 months ago

      The majority of the people in the military would be fighting with Texas. Our military is about as right wing as you can get.

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        7 months ago

        This is patently false. Officers across all branches skew more liberal while Marines skew heavily conservative.