Quote from OPTIONAL777:
The military is trained not to think, they are trained to follow orders...
Like liberal democraps?
Your suggesting that the military act on their opinions and not direct orders and duty to follow the directive of the commander and chief is what is wrong with the right wing crazies...
I'm suggesting at least some if not most in the military will have a hard time deciding which way to go in that scenario, and for good reason.
Your comparison to the USSR is lunacy, simply because they had no system of government like we do, which allows the people to vote in whom they like...
weak even for you.
While USSR's government was certainly different than ours, in this case it's largely irrelevant. Military personnel have friends and families.
Oath or no oath, orders or no orders firing on their own friends and families will be a tough decision for most of them to make. Like it or not at least some will refuse to follow orders in this case. Particularly if the revolt/uprising/revolution is relatively large.
If the backlash's are small, say Ruby Ridge/Waco size they'll be crushed like a bug and there would likely be little dissent in our military.
On the other hand a nationwide movement of millions or tens of millions
WILL (whether you like it or not) create a dilemma for many many individual soldiers.
That's all I'm saying.
If you ZZzzzz/Optional were in the Army and Obama ordered you to shoot your children for protesting the government or better yet being accused of sedition.
Are you going to follow orders without thinking first?
Especially since we all know and even YOU have admitted BO is a liar?