How We Learned to Love the Bill of Rights

Re:How We Learned to Love the Bill of Rights by rvo on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:48AM (#16472652)

Also, 99 percent of the US military will defect to protect their own country against a rogue federal government. These are normal, good people who signed up to protect us.

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Re:How We Learned to Love the Bill of Rights by ionised on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:58AM (#16473826)

Are you sure about that?

History shows us that typically, soldiers will fight for whoever guarantees their pay.

Combined with this;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

it shows that money, orders and chain of command are powerful motivators.

These are normal, good people who signed up to protect us.

I wouldn't put that number anywhere near 99%. Probably closer to 50%. Maybe even lower.

I'm sure the people in any given totalitarian regime once thought the same way about their armed forces.

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