I had a thought!
ALL fascist regimes have complete control of the military and this also applies to a government that is not fascist of course. The only way that is possible is by indoctrination which is in effect brainwashing. What you believe is what you are told to believe and you get no opportunity to ‘
express your opinion and have your say’. So anyone that tells you something that counters what you have been told is true, whether it is or not ….. is a threat, an enemy agent. This is evident with some posters on this forum their opinions are entrenched. They need no evidence to support their beliefs because they
KNOW that are right …… as they have been told so! So ex-military are more likely to hold extremist views that are entrenched rather than as a result of analysing a situation.
In the military you do not
THINK ….. some one who outranks you does the thinking and you just do what you are told to do/think! The ability to work things out for themselves diminishes over time and this is why so many ex-military in the lower ranks at least, end up on the streets and homeless when they leave the forces and the collective support. They have no one to tell them what to do any more.
If the government the military is controlled by is extremist/fascist ….. then the military become fascist by being the enforcer of that governments ideology. You can have patriots that have different ideas of patriotism but when they force their views on others with threats (
actual or verbal) then they become fascists.