Leftist core belief: Insult the military

by BD Pisani - 2007 jan 11

If you are ex-military or currently assigned to active, reserve, or Guard duty, chances are you've noted the never-ending cascade of egregious remarks made by leaders of the Democrat Party about our volunteer military personnel's lack of intelligence, ulterior enlistment motivation, and demographic inequality.

Pardon me whilst I type holding my nose.

To paraphrase, the Left bombastically blusters that our young men and women in the all-volunteer uniformed services are too stupid to do anything else, they enlist only to obtain bonuses and benefits, and that the majority of them are minorities and poor because "privileged" kids won't volunteer.

This is nothing more than malodorous equine excrement, steaming piles of it.

Leftists never met a lie they did not like or would not bleat to death — as long as it a) weakens America; b) harms the president; or c) promotes socialism — and when the vehicle targeted to cart such filth is the United States military, they do so with vigor. They do so because America's military powerfully symbolizes and can be used to project all of the egalitarian principles for which the United States stands — and therefore represents a real threat to their ultimate designs.

The usual suspects

As usual, the condescending claptrap vomited forth by malcontent bomb-throwers such as Charles Rangel (Democrat New York), Harry Reid (Democrat Nevada), Nancy Pelosi (Democrat California), and John Kerry (Democrat Massachusetts) contains not one single, slimy shred of fact. See if you can discern the unifying melody in their well-rehearsed chorus:

Rangel

If you remember, Democrat Representative Charles Rangel, the new House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, was the one who this past year called for re-institution of the draft, proposed legislation to that aim, then voted against it. Why? He repeatedly insists that America's military is unfairly comprised of the poor, disenfranchised, and minorities.

Reid

Democrat Senate majority leader Harry Reid, ethics preacher du jour while he, his son, and a few duplicitous state grifters rake in tons of cash operating shady Nevada land-flipping schemes, also disparages our military. In addition to his usual litany of military malfeasance, Reid's recent comment that "the burden of meeting the nation's security has not been shared equally by all segments of our society" is as imperiously condescending as it is disingenuous.

Pelosi

San Francisco-based Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi routinely wows them back in Sodom by the Bay with her anti-American values rhetoric, especially when it comes to the military. The Queen Bee has as of late imperiously agreed with the allegations from her drones that a military draft is "a way to make a point that this war has not involved or made any shared sacrifice."

Kerry

No line-up of American military haters would be complete without Democrat Senator and Vietnam veteran John Francois Kerry (By the way, did you know that Kerry served in Vietnam?). There is not enough space in this article to cite all of his reprehensible, venomous bile regarding America's military forces; for expediency's sake, this pretender maintains the notion that military personnel are as dumb as a box of rocks, which is the only reason there could possibly be for them to serve their country in war.

And of course there is a cornucopia of congressional Democrats who intone this etude in tempo to their conductor's baton. You know them all by now (or you should), you've all repeatedly heard the vile comments of the Durbins, Murthas, and their traitorous ilk.

But the real question few of us stump jumpers and hayseeds busily shucking our corn in Flyover Country bother to ask is "Why?" To answer that, we must first determine whether this gang's fetid assertion of disparity in the ranks is true.

Don't let facts get in the way

Department of Defense data — particularly that which demographically details military personnel by wealth, race, and education — not only refute the lies of Rangel, Reid, Pelosi, and Kerry, et al, but in fact bolster the opposite premise that today's United States military better reflects the composition of American society than do the private sector in general and the United States Congress itself:

Income

  • Only 13.6 percent of recruits come from families earning less than the median household income of $30,000 per year; and
  • As extremely low as this percentage is, it is DECREASING, not increasing. In 1999, 18.0 percent of recruits represented America's poorest families;

Education

  • 97 percent of all military personnel earned a high school degree;
  • Only 80 percent of the civilian population holds a high school degree;
  • The reading level of military recruits tested in 2004 was found to be ONE FULL GRADE LEVEL HIGHER than their civilian counterparts; and
  • 92.1 percent of all military officer accessions earned a baccalaureate degree or higher, as opposed to only 58 percent in the civilian population.

Race

  • 73 percent of military personnel are white;
  • Only 13 percent of military personnel are black; and
  • Only 14 percent of military personnel are comprised of all other races.

Not quite the foul-smelling brew of inequality you are being compelled to swallow by our "honest and ethical" Democrat congressional leaders, now is it? And before any of you infer that an inequitable percentage of combat casualties are inflicted upon minorities, take a deep breath, memorize the following facts, then stifle yourselves.

From the beginning of hostilities in Iraq to today, the following casualty (death and injury) figures have been incurred, noted by racial makeup:

  • White, 68.0 percent;
  • Black, 16.7 percent;
  • Hispanic, 12.0 percent; and
  • All Others, 3.3 percent.

David R. Segal, a University of Maryland sociologist who is director of the university's Center for Research on Military Organization, recently published the center's study of the Iraq War that found within a couple of percentage points, the figures from Iraq show that casualties are representative of the composition of the military right now. Segal's group further found that the all-volunteer military is resolutely and predictably middle American, with potential recruits situated in the top 25 percent and the bottom 25 percent of the economic scale equally opting not to serve (emphasis added by author).

So why is the Democrat Party lying to America?

Why do they lie? Why do they repeat the lies? Why do they wish to weaken America? Why do they obsess with demeaning our president in the eyes of his own people and the world? But of greater import and perhaps most shameful of all ...

Why do they impugn and ridicule our all-volunteer military, our best and brightest young men and women serving in the finest, most powerful, most conscientious (perhaps too conscientious), and most egalitarian military force ever assembled in the history of civilization — especially when the nation is at war with Islamofascist murderers who have vowed to bring about our destruction?

Why do the power elites who run the Democrat Party, this gang of loathsome opportunists, want to sell the myth that only the poor, dark-skinned, or stupid serve in the military because it's the only way for them to "break the cycle" of "hopelessness?"

Puh-leeze ... do I really have to spell this out for you after all of the quality time we've shared together? Try working it out on your own; If you just can't grasp the hidden agenda behind their prevarication, send me an email and perhaps I'll outline their strategy in another of our friendly little get-togethers.

PS: I planted a few random clues throughout the article to help you deduce the truth behind the lies.