re: #396 HappyWarrior

He likes to talk about Patton and MacArthur a lot. There’s a very good reason why neither men were ever elected President and we got Ike instead.

Well, Patton was dead, so there’s that…
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But that’s an excellent point. And the reason why MacArthur had to go was that he put himself above the elected government. The crazy thing about worshipping MacArthur is that he represents the most dangerous tendency in the Military, one that the guys who wrote the Constitution right feared. The military must always serve the elected government, and not the other way ‘round.