Reply #53: If you were intellectually honest, you would at least include in that... [View All]

The empirically observable reality of how many of the dictatorships throughout world history came into being as the result of militarism or too much power vested in the military. That would probably be most dictatorships: a coup by a bunch of generals. In the case of the Nazis, it was a coup by military fetishists, with many reactionary military members in their ranks who were angry above all at a society that insufficiently honored its veterans. Something to think about.

How can you be blind to the threat to freedom posed by the state itself, invariably in the name of defense against foreign threats? It's intellectual dishonesty not to see that the military is taking on domestic police functions (repeal of Posse Comitatus comes to mind), the police are increasingly militarized, and pro-militarist ideology goes hand in hand with a surveillance state and rollback of rights at home.