The Military’s White Democrat Problem

themissingdatadepot.substack.com

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What a crazy farce.

White hate is a well organized American power cult wearing conservatism and nationalism as a familiar costume.

These retellings of the narrative are insidious pathological lies.

The problem isn’t democrat or republican, it is thought controlled American.

If the government wants to avoid a military recruiting crisis, politicians should not be so careless with their lives.

More is not better. This article has approximately 9000% too many words.

I'm sure the point is buried in there somewhere if I had another couple of hours

My take after reading it entirely is that it shows that so far DEI policies have not negatively impacted the desire of potential recruits in the groups that are traditionally overrepresented in the military from wanting to serve. It does note that this might change as knowledge of the DEI policies increase in such groups. Nevertheless, the current recruiting shortfalls cannot be placed at the feet of DEI.

The author theorizes that the shortfall is mainly in white Democrats who are less likely to want to join due to negative views of the country as a whole. Why join the military to defend something you hate? For this theory, the author had to rely on some speculative interpretations of the available data but makes reasonable, though not definitive, justifications for the interpretations.

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