I was quoting the percent that currently serves. If you tally up total veterans it would be a higher number like you say but total veterans includes a lot of very old and very out of shape people though.
Active law enforcement and active military will do what they're told for the most part.
Times are different now. Imagine if the British had the ability to turn off the colonists power source. No more heat, no more light, no more electricity pumping water from the ground. Cell phone turned off or listened to, bank accounts drained, facial recognition everywhere.
Times have changed.
Times ahead changed but people haven't. The police and military need the power grid as much as we do.
I was quoting the percent that currently serves. If you tally up total veterans it would be a higher number like you say but total veterans includes a lot of very old and very out of shape people though.
Active law enforcement and active military will do what they're told for the most part.
Times are different now. Imagine if the British had the ability to turn off the colonists power source. No more heat, no more light, no more electricity pumping water from the ground. Cell phone turned off or listened to, bank accounts drained, facial recognition everywhere.
Times have changed.
The military and police need power, food, and water. They can't shut it all down. We just shut down everything for the pandemic except for the police, and hospitals, and roads, and road work, and gas stations, and grocery stores, and liquor stores, and gun stores, and next thing you know everything was open.
And you're correct, the police will do what they're told, and when they're told to steal food from the federal government, they will.
Old and fat? How much does it matter? I just watched a video of some old, fat, drunk hillbilly shooting two highly trained cops in the face, and he didn't have to do any elite commando type stuff to do it. He didn't even put his shoes on.
The government has a hard enough time stopping localized civil unrest. Imagine Hurricane Katrina nationwide. Imagine it nationwide, along with states going against the federal government. Biden has control of the most expensive military in the world, but he's not a God. 1.5 million people aren't going to control 340 million people without the consent of a majority of them.