I'm not saying it's why his campaign imploded. I'm saying that being an unrepentant murderer that proudly killed brown people for 3 tours and then also joined the world's most infamous merc company SHOULD make someone completely unviable to anyone that considers themselves left. He is not left. He travelled around the world murdering people for imperialism. He enjoyed murdering people for imperialism.

This is not left wing. This kind of person will never ever be left wing. This kind of person pretending to be left wing will always blow up in your face, because this kind of person has done more horrible shit than is out there.

Nobody in the military can be left wing. It's as simple as that.

The military's job is to be the enforcers of imperialism abroad. The cop's job is to be the enforcers of imperialism at home.

Do you think your local ICE officer kicking down doors and kidnapping brown people can be left wing? No? Then why do you think the same fucking person doing it abroad can be left wing?

The reason is because you've been raised surrounded by people grinning and nodding along and saying "oh yes the veterans they fight for our freedom, they are good people, hmm yes yes, good people" over and over and over, reinforcing it to you, over and over and over. Anyone who does not do so is socially harmed for not doing so, which reinforces it further and creates an endless cycle of it. And because you don't see it happen, you don't hear about the horros they perform from the people around you, you don't think they're that bad. But they are. Their behaviour abroad has always been entirely indistinguishable from all the videos you've seen of the IDF's conduct. You simply haven't seen it because the US hasn't been an invading force yet in the age of social media, and the older content gets fobbed off as "bad apples" because it's only a small amount of content. The US as an invading force is going to come though, and everyone will see the same thing we see with the IDF.