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Every person in every role in every system makes their own decisions. We're all just people. It happens that, in the military, there's a very firm habit backed up with some enforcement, of always deciding to do just whatever the person "above" you tells you to do, but that habit gets broken sometimes. During times of political or systemic upheaval, it gets broken a lot more than it would seem like.
The military people will certainly show up and gargle, no question. But they'll also think it's an incredibly stupid activity to be part of, and they'll remember that he was the one that ordered them do it, and they definitely won't remember him fondly for it as events get more and more chaotic and exciting in the months and years to come. Personally I'm in favor of him doing as much of this stuff as possible.
I agree with everything you said but the people who think all this shit is stupid have....HAVE to do something if things swing the way it usually does under a regime trying to become authoritarian. It's the grunts that will be important. They can't just follow orders and just be alright with it. If most are just fine with being very stupid authoritarian tools, all is lost.
It's not what this country was meant to be but we keep bending over for the turds that ruin or end peoples lives.
This is still the dumb bullshit stage of things, parades are the sort of time-waste you expect to have to do once in a while. If it turns out to be a pretext and he tells them to keep marching across the Canadian border for US-similation, that's a different story. Long walk though so plenty of time to mull it over.