Why do you think that the military is often stereotyped as reactionary conservatives?

I notice a lot of military types are very vocal about their dislike of legalizing marijuana, gay marriage, our president elect, ect.





Do you think that because of this that the people who served in the military are stereotyped as conservative robots/meatheads.





PROTIP: any reply containing the words "Liberal Media" will prove this stereotype right.|||People who are too dumb to go to college and too violent to keep a job tend to be conservative, as well.|||I don't think that is accurate-


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It is the anti military that would like paint that picture to in some way


unglamourize military service-|||military employees are generally reactionary conservatives, because as a group they are more likely to carry out tasks to support a cause which is totally unbeknown to them because it is the "right" thing to do. basically they are made to think that way by the military because its more effective than having real people and cheaper than robots.|||They know what it takes to be patriotic ..


seems like you may need to take lessons from them.|||Most who serve in the military are patriotic.|||those who serve in the military are generally conservative to begin with, which means more of them would speak out against liberal agendas


they are stereotyped as (insert your favorite anti military slur here) as a way of demeaning their core beliefs and promoting a false feeling of superiority among their detractors


the only stereotypes I personally hold for military types are that they tend to be decent hardworking people with a solid sense of what is right and wrong and they have the courage and conviction to personally see that the wrongs of this world are stopped so that innocent people may enjoy the freedoms that they have put their lives on the line to provide for us|||Just out of curiousity, who does this often stereotyping? You are the first person I've ever heard ascribe that to the military. According to the United States Constitution and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the military is nonpolitical. It's members may be political but the military as an entity is not a politcal entity unless you have a warped sense of politics. Further, your term robots/meatheads is unsulting and I challenge you to use that term in the presence of someone in uniform. Any chance you had of being taken seriously went out the door the moment you used those terms for those who serve or have served in the military.|||Members of the military are often stereotyped in this way by those who either;





A) Know no one who is currently serving in the military.





B) Has no knowledge of the military and/or what it is like to serve.





C) Have no concept of selfless service.





D) Believe everything they hear or see in the media.





E) All ofthe above.





Usually stereotypes are used by one group to denigrate another group. Perhaps you question should be why does the one group choose the use negative stereotypes to describe the other group? Why not ask why the average military member has a high sense of patriotism? Or why they are willing to make sacrifices so that others may live freely?|||Its not a stereotype. They really are reactionary conservatives, robots, and meatheads as well.





I don't mean the soldiers who are doing the fighting, they have my respect as well as my sympathy. I mean the higher-ups -- the ones who approve torture then make the little guys take the rap. They care nothing about facts and send our young people to do their dirty work.





They somehow believe that their "values" are the only acceptable values, so they feel entitled to judge the rest of us and tell us how we "should" live, while they're busy making big bucks off the whole war machine.





Don't we get tired of people who are always "shoulding" on us?





As Confucious said, "violence is a confession of ignorance."