Reply #22: My question is what is scary? Ret. generals exercising free speech? [View All]

[HereSince1628]

I'm really not scared of that.

Scared that they know just how bad it really is? Scared there is much more deviousness and incompetence eating its way through the military? Well, maybe there is something frightful there, but it's the sort of fright we must be willing to face and stamp out.

But we need to be careful about using pronouns with indefinite and unexplained antecedents. What is really the "it" that we should be afraid of?

If the reichwingers get to spin "it." It will be fear of insubordinate generals and the possibility of mutiny in the military. The entire propaganda machine is going to do everything it can to keep the "scary" truth from being revealed.

If fear sends us into "duck and cover" mode those who are destroying the nation get a free pass to suppress all that the nation must know in order to avoid dictatorship and to get back on the right track.

Truth and openness are a necessary disinfectant which democratic republics must apply regularly as a matter of political hygiene.