Guest post: Social engineering when they do it
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Reassigned and replaced by a man.
“While the American people had always rejected the radical-feminist so-called ‘Equal Rights Amendment,’ Team Obama could fast-track their social engineering through the military’s top-down chain of command.”
And replacing women from these positions is not social engineering? All and only men is a neutral, apolitical, unprejudiced position? And each of these women has more experience, talent, and skill than a hundred thousand Hegseths and Trumps.
As Nora Bensahel, a scholar of civil-military relations at Johns Hopkins University, told me, the firing of Davids and other women “is deliberately sending a chilling message to the women who are already serving in uniform….”
I wonder how this effects the morale of the armed forces as a whole? While I can imagine some Trumpistas among the military, there are going to be plenty who will resent the culling of female officers by a know-nothing dweeb like Hegseth, and I can’t help but think that Trump’s vendetta against diversity in all its forms is not going to help with unit cohesion amongst serving minority members, whose existence is to be ignored and hidden behind their Aryan White comrades in arms. Will they be that much less willing to follow illegal orders issued from Berlin Washington? If those tasked with defending the regime no longer feel they are part of the regime, they might be less inclined to fight for it, die for it, or kill for it. This could become very important.
Is anyone thinking that this is all being done because of Orders from Moscow?
So much of what Trump has done has been counter to American interests that might well be the case, but Trump is so stupid, vindictive, wrongheaded, and pigheaded, that he could have done a lot of this stupid, destructive shit on his own, without any prompting from an enemy. That he is thin-skinned and easily played is just the cherry on top for anyone manipulating him, which would include those in his malignant inner circle, any one of whom could be working for the Russians. Just the softest of nudges, and the easily implanted memory that any course of action was one of Trump’s ideas, sends the Great Orange Wrecking Ball careening off in any direction desired.
I must confess, I had second thoughts after pressing “Submit Comment” on this rant, as I realized I’d made a rather serious mistake in the original post, but it was too late. It was so blatantly obvious, I was afraid someone might take me to task for it.
Each of these women has more experience, talent, and skill than an infinite number of Hegseths and Trumps.
There are times when even hyperbole is not hyper enough.