Post by Aj_June on Sept 22, 2018 7:36:10 GMT
Sept 21, 2018 1:34:34 GMT @nxnwrocks said:
There's probably some liberals, but the general consensus is the majority skews right of center.The word majority is important here. Does majority mean 1 more than 50%? Even if yes it still doesn't mean majority of military leans toward the right.
Keep in mind that republican party increases spending on miltary so some of the support from military for them is purely based on that.
But aside from ignoring the propaganda surveys from the right or the left, real unbiased surveys depict a different picture.
Political scientists Jason Dempsey and Bob Shapiro found a very different result.
It is true that the upper echelons of the military tilt right. My own research confirmed that about two-thirds of majors and higher-ranking officers identify as conservative, as previous studies found. But that tilt becomes far less pronounced when you expand the pool of respondents. That is because only 32 percent of the Army’s enlisted soldiers consider themselves conservative, while 23 percent identify as liberal and the remaining 45 percent are self-described moderates. These numbers closely mirror the ideological predilections of the civilian population.
So not even half of military personnel considered themselves conservatives a decade back.