Its difficult for a lot of people who are patriotic to wrap their heads around the fact that our government is not always the good guys. To be perfectly honest about it… they may seldom be the good guys these days. Our military has been used and abused for quite some time as a political and economic tool to coerce others to do as we say. Well, not as WE say. As the Deep State says. As the MIC says. As the international corporations say. WE have no voice in all this. They do not care what WE say, and if we question them WE are unpatriotic. WE are anarchists and WE do not have a grip on reality. On the contrary. WE have a much better grip on reality than those who are so indoctrinated in “My country right or wrong” that they are unable to see the truth for what it is.
I’m a vet. But I’m no anarchist. Neither were our Founders. They understood that to ensure true freedom and the time and ability to prosper that some amount of government was necessary. What they gave us was a republic, but it was a true liberal republic. Not “liberal” as used today. But free to do you own thing, but not intrude upon the right of your neighbor to do their own thing. The stages of government seem to follow a path from true freedom, anarchy, to true totalitarianism, communism/Nazism. It progresses from anarchy to liberalism to conservatism to socialism to communism/Nazism/dictatorship. Consider where we are now!