Keep The Military In D.C.
At this point, the case for removing the National Guard from Washington D.C. is based less on actual reasoning and more on people being mad that such a thing happened in the first place. In the novel Battlefield Earth, when a male Psychlo (the dominant alien race of the book) is asked about mathematics he goes into a homicidal rage before killing himself — this is also how a Republican acts when you mention the events of 1/6/2021.
Of course, some might call it ironic that the first major use of the military for national defense in decades is also its most controversial use. However, considering how our political class has treated the military over the past several decades, I feel it makes perfect sense. Henry Kissinger once called military men “dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy,” which has been the basic understanding of the military among Republicans since. The point of the military is to get opium from Afghanistan and drone-strike Iranian generals to make the President look good — not actually make the American public safer.
Nothing about surrounding our leaders with protection is unusual. While the right-wing Revolver says “Free countries do not turn their legislatures into armed camps,” (and considering what Revolver and their populist-right buddies considers “free” I take their view of “free countries” completely unseriously) they seem to forget that armed men-in-black follow the President 24/7 and have done so since 1865. The Secret Service was created by President Lincoln — Lincoln literally signed the creation of the Secret Service into law the day he was assassinated — because he had dealt with many attempts to take his life over the course of the Civil War. (The most famous failed one being the Baltimore Plot, which was planned and attempted in early 1861.) If President Lincoln was guarded more heavily — as he had every reason to be — it’s possible Booth would have not killed him, and he would have lived to serve two terms.
Here’s the number one reason to keep the National Guard in the capitol: The people fighting the hardest for them to be removed are the very people who made putting them there needed in the first place. Lauren Boebert demanded an end to the occupation in a Twitter video posted on 3/8/2021, she also gave people at the insurrection a guided tour of the capitol and declared “today is 1776” on Twitter mere hours before the riot started. Matt Gaetz has constantly called for the occupation to end, and he not only voted against certifying the Electoral Votes, but then went on to blame the riots on Antifa and not Trump supporters. (A group of leftists getting the blame for an attack on a legislator done by the extreme-right — now where have I heard that before?)
To give you an idea of what the American Republic is up against, failed Senate candidate Lauren Witzke directly admitted “all I care about is winning,” when asked about her support for an “election reform” bill in Georgia. It was made obvious on 1/6/2021 that these people do not care about anything other than planning their next coup — and we should always have that in the back of our minds.
Republicans who want to remove the military from D.C. should be asked one simple question: What was your involvement with 1/6/2021? You can also ask them what they thought of the event, or where they were when it happened. Removing the one thing that stops this from happening again is not something the nation should support, it’s something that should only be endorsed by those intentionally trying to weaken our nation so this can happen twice.
