[lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>... it's important to admit that much of the U.S. population believes a lot 
>of retrograde things - from a time long predating Karl Rove - instead of 
>circulating a lot of defensive myths (people love the military because it's 
>a little socialist bastion, evangelicals are mostly yuppies...).

Yuppies are indeed high-church mammon worshipers and have nothing to do with 
evangelism, but I've always thought the military's deepest appeal for the 
professionals in it *is* its proto-socialistic nature.  A hierarchical 
killing machine is undeniably not true socialism, but the military does 
offer a large dose of one-for-all-and-all-for-one that is missing from most 
US lifestyles, plus all those pension and healthcare benefits.  I suspect 
many in the US military are closet socialists.

Carl