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The condescending liberals telling people who we are is worn out.
They don't speak for half the country that is for sure.
Their main priority is everyone but American citizens. That's what they are standing for and Pelosi demonstrated it today, again.
Wow! You believe all the tripe that Trump spews out!!
I think its a bad idea, although not because a bunch of bed wetting leftists are against the military. I just don't think we need to show of our military hardware to impress anyone. Especially ourselves. Yeah, I'll admit I like to look at tanks and planes, particularly vintage ones. I've been to a WW2 reenactment air show and a WW1 aerodrome and seen the Aberdeen Proving Grounds display. The museum at Gettysburg, Valley Forge, the Smithsonian, Baltimore Harbor's naval exhibits, all are very interesting. Erie's Perry's flagship, very educational and fun.
If you want to honor and salute our armed forces, our people in the military, that's fine. Really they're our last intact governmental arm that we can still count on. I had to endure an air show in Atlantic City a few years ago. Sonic booms and jets flying overhead.... it gets annoying fast.
This is being claimed as a celebration of military pride and a salute to our veterans, but it's really not. It's going to be a celebration of Donald Trump's pride, who will bask in being seen as the leader saluted by our military. Not bad for a draft-dodger.
This is why it is a slippery slope: outside of well-established cadences like the 4th of July, staging these kinds of conspicuous affairs is a great opportunity for a President to exploit the military as a political prop for self-aggrandization. Then maybe next we start singling out those in the citizenry who don't sing loud enough and salute enthusiastically enough at these leader-focused events, and you're well on the way to doing exactly what despots in lesser countries do.
This is not who we are. We maintain the strongest military on the planet and show pride and respect without handing this kind of stage prop leverage over to our Commander in Chief.
It is just another example of Trump chipping away at the institutional legacy that others have respected, which have kept the leader of the USA from looking and operating like the leaders in Syria, Iran, or North Korea. We used to have a sense of integrity amongst our leadership that charted a course toward a higher standard. Now, increasingly, we are falling short of our ideals.
And Trump followers who rubber-stamp all of these antics are fools blinded far more by their egos than bolstered by their love of country.
San Francisco. Explains everything!
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Those heavy pieces of military armament tear up roads....factor in cost of repairs. If not immediate, it will decrease the expected life of those roads.
If Trump manages to actually pull off this parade, we will be laughingstock of the planet.
Our soldiers will not be marching past Trump the Magnificent in snappy, high stepping formation. We'll be lucky if they are all on the same foot.
News clip comparisons will be cruel.
You illustrate how divided our Country is. The Left continues the contempt Obama had for our troops. The rank and file in the military see this as well.
A military parade would be attended by hundreds of thousands. Those on your side would be drowned-out like a cricket at a train station. It would be decisive.
In any case, this will only clarify who is on either side. This will be necessary when the time comes.
I posted this in the other parade thread, but it's still applicable.
For all of Trump's flaws I do not believe he wants a parade for ego reasons as the media is so desperately trying to push. I think Trump honestly believes that a parade would help to unite people in this country, and get people to think more positively about our military, which is often bashed by those on the left. Those are the real reasons, IMO.
Having said that, while I think a parade sounds interesting, I think it would ultimately send the wrong message to the rest of the world. It would give the appearance that we were trying to copy other countries, and the US shouldn't be in that position. Other countries are supposed to look up to us, and copy us, not the other way around.
Bottom line: Trump wants a parade for respectable reasons, but fails to see that having one would actually make our country look weaker, not stronger.
If Trump hadn't attacked POWs (John McCain) and Gold Star families (the Khans), you might've had a smidgen of a chance of convincing me of this. But given Trump's past behavior, I'm calling a big huge NOPE on this theory.
DC ain't having it. Let Trump have it in his home town. How about a nice little parade down Astoria Boulevard in Queens?
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