Two Thumbs
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asterism's graph demonstrates the adjusted correctness of "Most of the military is made up of poor, white and black, rural southerners, AKA, the republican base. The military provides these people with opportunity for something other than the shit existence they would otherwise have."
You apparently missed the far leftward lines showing how few actual poor people join.
The military is mostly middle class.
very few use it to get out of poverty or welfare, it was mostly people that couldn't afford college or just wanted something different.
I did go to boot with a man that was sentenced to the Navy though.