A positive by-product of the discipline necessary to the success of any military organization is that we voluntarily surrender many of our freedoms in order to voluntarily place ourselves under that discipline. I call this a positive because we learn to make great sacrifices to be part of something larger than ourselves for the benefit of others besides ourselves.The Annoyed Man wrote:All of this is the natural byproduct of people placing a higher value on their grievance identity than on their citizenship.......or on obtaining citizenship if they don't already have it. They are more interested in carving their own place in the world, than they are in being part of the greatest nation in world history.
Frankly, I'm not surprised, as there are also plenty of people on the social/political right who are beginning to feel the same way. And I think this emphasis on assigning a higher value to one's grievance identity rather than on citizenship is itself the natural byproduct of a leviathan fedgov't which has grown too large to either be responsive to the needs of the citizenry, or protective the rights of the citizenry.
Most Americans do not experience this and do not understand this. Those who participate in and perpetrate the anti-Trump protests we see on the news do not seem to me to understand the concept of suppressing one's desire for instant gratification to the principle of rule of law. Or maybe they are just bought and paid for by Democrat financiers.
In either case, it puts me in mind of MacBeth's protestations about life; a tale told by an idiot ... full of sound and fury, signifying nothing (Act V, Scene V).