“I think many would follow orders to ‘suppress insurrection’ with greater or lesser degrees of enthusiasm.”
I’ve seen no recent evidence that our soldiers and Marines are Nazis, gestapo and eizengruppen who would goosestep into their homes and kill their mothers and fathers in bed.
Perhaps you can point out recent training exercises where our troops were encouraged to murder US citizens by the thousands.
“Perhaps you can point out recent training exercises where our troops were encouraged to murder US citizens by the thousands.”
Waco is a relatively recent example where the military assisted in the murder of scores of US citizens.
Cadre would not be military, it would be ‘law enforcement’, but I have no doubt that presently many or most would ‘suppress domestic terrorists’ as defined and identified by their chain of command.
Who shall guard the guards is a question that has given every tyrant sleepless nights, but on balance in the course of human history, the guards do what their paymasters and centurions tell them to do.