• BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    most of the active military personnel we have are heavily right leaning

    It’s a bit more complicated than that.

    The enlisted/younger/minority troops tend to skew politically in a way consistent with their age and demographics- that is, liberal/left. Commissioned/older/whiter troops also tend to skew politically consistently with their own demographics.

    There’s definitely a demographic in the military that are drawn to enlist out of right-wing sentiment, especially family-tradition/legacy soldiers, doubly so if they’re from the sort of family that can get them a commission. It happens, but it’s hardly the rule- after all, a solid contingent of the enlisted folks are there because it promises to help them pay for college