We would do well to bear in mind the dangers of excessive military influence in national life. Professional soldiers have little in common with the rest of the country. We like to think of them as Our Boys in Uniform, the brave and the true and the patriotic, defenders of democracy, and so on. It isn’t so. The officer corps is authoritarian to the roots of its soul, has little use for democracy, and prides itself on blind obedience. Soldiers do not readily distinguish between dissent and treason. Further, they regard civil society as an unworkable anarchy of weaklings who lack the will to fight.
Something else to think about as the computer touch screen miss-registers your vote.
We watched Man of the Year last night. While the writers of that script definitely need to attend some beginner computer programming classes before they attempt to write another story featuring a "computer glitch" (for starters, no self-respecting geek would ever use the word "glitch"), I think we have a good chance of seeing some of the scenes from the movie playing out on our TV's tomorrow.
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