Lot of people on here seem to assume that the US military is basically as bad as US police when it comes to “being totally dominated by frothing MAGA freaks.”
This is absolutely NOT the case.
people forget that the military specifically targets poor kids for recruitment, using benefits/stability as a big draw, and therefore you have a lot of people in the military who would not otherwise choose to be there
and of course there are people who will moralize that decision by saying that folks don’t have a right to live comfortably through that route, but I just also don’t believe that folks born into situations they cannot control should be forced to suffer to ensure their morality remains pure
yeah there’s quite a bit of “leftism” that doesn’t seem to be built on the idea of community, and I don’t like that at all! and I think that’s why fuck ups are deemed “unacceptable” by some
like i have many bad things to say about organized church and the catholic church in specific but the idea that sin is universal and that concrete actions can redeem it is one that is often lost in leftist spaces imo
Yeah the idea that everyone makes mistakes and moral compromises is something leftism occasionally makes lip service to (no ethical consumption under capitalism!) but there's a lot of "no but this thing *you* did is beyond redemption" purity test shit.
I do think in the modern world, a lot of folks have closed off the possibility of repentance & forgiveness. Mess up once? you're doomed, you can never do anything to redeem yourself. Which is also why some folks like me agonize so much over "ethical purity" even when there's no real ethical choice.
I've been heckled at a leftist reading group for pointing out that the only mentions of "grace" on marxists dot org are the activists and writers Grace Carlson and Grace Lee Boggs, lol. IMO the issue is that many left thinkers are raised to trust suspicion over generosity.
