> Yes the military is a well-known champion of democracy.
Throughout history, militaries have served all kinds of polity -- feudalism, absolute autocracy, constitutional monarchy, empire and its colonial administration, republican democracy, socialist government, etc. -- and they have participated in coups, rebellions, and revolutions from the left and the right.
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CB: The Union Army in the Civil War, a military, carried out the most democratic, left actions in the history of the United States.
Chavez and Castro, military leaders, are the greatest democrats of the Americas.