You cannot say "Oh, it'd be easy to convince the military to enslave and subjugate people in a manner directly at conflict with their training/conditioning/tenants/ideological purposes"
Sixteen years ago, you might have persuaded me with that line of thinking. But after George W. Bush was not only elected, but *re-elected* by the US voting public, it no longer holds any water in my view. You guys seriously over-rate the general public's ability to distinguish between facts and propaganda. Look at anti-climate-science propaganda, look at the propaganda that caused the US public to support the Iraq War for 'weapons of mass destruction'. The US public is very gullible. Perhaps that may even be true of many/most other countries, it doesn't matter. The point is that the US public *is* gullible.
You know, the fact that Sarah Palin
was even a potential candidate for vice president just says so much about the state of mind of the American public. The fact that she wasn't laughed off the podium at the first sign of her utter incompetence and ineptitude is an enduring smirch on the credibility of these arguments that "good ol' average GI Joe would be able to tell who the real good guys were and just do the right thing".
Apparently you guys just haven't learned much about psychology, like the Milgram experiments or the Stanford prison experiments. Apparently you haven't learned the lesson of Nazism. The dictatorship will not 'seize power suddenly'. They will most probably be voted in by the US voting public. (If such a thing would ever happen, which I actually highly doubt. Again, I'm the skeptic in these scenarios. I'm just pointing out the absurdities that gun nuts believe are realistic scenarios.)
Edited 11/19/2015 08:37:30