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Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
This is part of our national hangover from Vietnam. Soldiers were blamed for policies that they did not create and crimes they did not commit.
During and after that, "Support Our Troops" became the rallying cry for many -- but was also used as a surrogate for "how dare you criticize the war?" This is one of many ways in which dissent was treated as anti-patriotic.
Bush, Rove, and Cheney advanced this to an art form. Criticize the war, criticize one soldier, and you are attacking all soldiers because you are a terror-loving blah blah blah. And they have pushed that into the mindset of many.
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I don't dispute what you say, but the attitude I see is (also) an organic one, coming from people who served. And it's less a reaction to criticism of policy, and more of a conviction that soldiers and vets are more righteous and deserving, and less appreciated.
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