re: #140 Decatur Deb

Soldiers and their families are a minority of a minority. It will be lost in the noise.

Disagree: despite being a technical “minority”, there are still a lot of folks in the service, and their “minority” status is constantly getting overlooked in favor of a a sort of quasi-official lionization, for a number of reasons:

1) First (and foremost) the whole “serving the country” thing.
2) As a volunteer military, the need to get the maximum number of volunteers.
3) Military and veterans are usually (if often incorrectly) thought of a a bastion of conservative (if not always obsessively RW) attitudes.
4) Dissing (even perceived dissing of )the military/vets is generally a political loser. For anybody.
5) Unless I’m mistaken, the US military has a larger percentage of lower-income and/or non-white people serving in it than the general population: Service has been - for decades - a path to “upward mobility” for a lot of other-wise disadvantaged folks: messing with the citizenship status of servicepeople/vets - out of (apparently) no other reason than stock Trumprrhoid xenophobia - strikes me as being an easy issue to exploit for the next election.
Maybe.